On 1/16/11 9:04 AM, Tim wrote:
On Jan 16, 7:43 am, wrote:
On 1/16/11 8:41 AM, Gene wrote:



On Sat, 15 Jan 2011 20:28:59 -0800 (PST),
wrote:

On Jan 6, 8:46 pm, wrote:
On Jan 6, 12:39 pm, wrote:

TheLandRover110 used to be the hot ticket but the Toyotas are a lot more
dependable and handle a lot better.

The old one liner:

"Did you hear about the guy that bought a new Land Rover and it didn't
leak any oil so he kept taking it back and hounding the dealer till
they got it right?"

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/ar...ectid=10698544

A double whammy!

I don't know if they still use Lucas electrics... but no surprise,
anyway....

The "electrics" on some of the lesser-known Italian cars in the late
1950's and early 1960's were as bad as the Lucas stuff.

Magneti Marelli.... And lucas.

now the ironic part. In a round about way, Lucas and Marelli merged
about 15+ years ago. Do they make a better product? NO!

There's business wedding was about like two drunks tying themselves
together to see if they could stagger straight.


There was a guy in Independence, Missouri, a TR-4 racer, who for a
living in the 1960s ran a Brit car speed shop. I remember he had a
"special" in which he would rip out all the wiring and whatever else
electrical he could on your British sports car and replace it with GM
stuff. I don't remember the details, but there was always a car in his
shop undergoing electrical transmogrification.