Re: Was lug bolts, now US vs. German engineering

[Andy Holmes <sciroccoinj@yahoo.co.uk>]

LOL - Too true

I know someone who has 5 and he uses them year round
and they seem reliable and they are apparently all in
good nick.

Blokes a masochist!

Then again my dad runs around in a 1953 Riley RME

Andy


 --- Ewan Hopkins <ewanhopkins@hotmail.com> wrote: >
They are! I suspect that you'll find that most of
> them are, or were 
> recently, owned by people with deep wallets or the
> time to spend maintaining 
> them or are just complete sheds, unless they have
> spent their life garaged. 
> They ( in fact anything which emerged from British
> Leyland in the 70's) make 
> alfas look like paragons of reliability &
> rustproofing.
> 
> Ewan Hopkins...
> 
> '85 Storm 2.0
> '86 GT 1.8
> '87 GT 1.6
> 
> 
> 
> >From: Andy Holmes <sciroccoinj@yahoo.co.uk>
> >To: VeeWdriver@aol.com, scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> >Subject: Re: Was  lug bolts, now US vs. German
> engineering
> >Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 09:53:33 +0000 (GMT)
> >
> >However there are still thousands of them floating
> >around over here (and i mean many thousands) so
> they
> >cant be all that bad.
> >
> >I think after all this time the bugs have been
> ironed
> >
> >Andy
> >
> >
> >--- VeeWdriver@aol.com wrote: > I remembered a
> little
> >something about my MGB that
> > > speaks volumes for British
> > > quality.  On the right wing (fender for us
> Yanks)
> > > there was a little British
> > > Leyland emblem...it came from the factory
> mounted
> > > upside-down!  Quality
> > > control at it's finest!
> > >
> > > On another note, ya gotta love a car that's
> entire
> > > electrical system has
> > > five, count em, five fuses.
> > >
> > > Tom
> > >
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Andy Holmes

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