- 21. Re: XK150 spotted (score: 1)
- Author: archer@hsi86.hsi.com (Garry Archer)
- Date: Tue, 19 May 92 13:28:11 -0400
- The owner of the local British Cars place has a beautiful white XK150 DHC. I've often seen him driving around in it. Its beautiful. I also often see it parked on the forecourt of his shop, of course.
- /html/british-cars/1992-05/msg00356.html (7,359 bytes)
- 22. Re: Wooden mini (score: 1)
- Author: archer@hsi86.hsi.com (Garry Archer)
- Date: Tue, 19 May 92 14:36:46 -0400
- Yes, I'd forgotten! Actually, perhaps Mini fans can confirm, wasn't it Morris Mini Traveller and Austin Mini Countryman? Blimey, I can't remember! Garry Archer Esq. archer@hsi.com 3M Health Informati
- /html/british-cars/1992-05/msg00360.html (7,111 bytes)
- 23. Re: Mini Convertibles... (score: 1)
- Author: archer@hsi86.hsi.com (Garry Archer)
- Date: Thu, 28 May 92 09:50:23 -0400
- Yes! They have had their Minis featured in British Car magazine too. They're from Milford, just a few miles west of New Haven. Pretty close to here (Wallingford) actually. Dammit I forget their name
- /html/british-cars/1992-05/msg00562.html (7,969 bytes)
- 24. Re: Mini Convertibles (score: 1)
- Author: archer@hsi86.hsi.com (Garry Archer)
- Date: Thu, 28 May 92 14:28:00 -0400
- Yeah, yeah, that's it! PIMLICO!!! I should have known better, me Auntie Kath lives in Pimlico, London. Damn, now even my mental mapping routines aren't working... Garry Archer Esq. archer@hsi.com 3M
- /html/british-cars/1992-05/msg00588.html (7,185 bytes)
- 25. Re: Jensen GT (score: 1)
- Author: archer@hsi86.hsi.com (Garry Archer)
- Date: Thu, 28 May 92 14:49:04 -0400
- I saw one for sale recently just a few short miles from my house too: BRG with tan roof. I think it was a 1976. They (local British cars restoration place) were asking about $8000 for it. Garry Arche
- /html/british-cars/1992-05/msg00590.html (7,290 bytes)
- 26. Re: Anyone know about Minicooper pick ups? (score: 1)
- Author: archer@hsi86.hsi.com (Garry Archer)
- Date: Fri, 29 May 92 09:41:38 -0400
- Yes, correct! The factory built Mini pickups. Not sure if they were Mini Cooper pickups though! Amazin' Minis came from the factory in various forms: Saloons, estates, "woody wagons" (Countryman and
- /html/british-cars/1992-05/msg00633.html (8,320 bytes)
- 27. SOL identifier (score: 1)
- Author: archer@hsi86.hsi.com (Garry Archer)
- Date: Fri, 29 May 92 17:14:45 -0400
- I like t-shirts meself. I wear them all the time. To work in the summer, at home, at soccer, on holiday, etc, etc. I tend to prefer them in white though. The brighter the better. Albeit a BRG t-shirt
- /html/british-cars/1992-05/msg00688.html (7,218 bytes)
- 28. Re: LBC's in tha commute (score: 1)
- Author: archer@hsi86.hsi.com (Garry Archer)
- Date: Thu, 2 Apr 92 08:53:47 -0500
- Sounds like the Ford Anglia. Of the old English Fords, this one is very desirable! They actually have suprisingly good performance. It was one of Britain's "American" style Fords. Little eyelids over
- /html/british-cars/1992-04/msg00028.html (7,866 bytes)
- 29. English Fords (score: 1)
- Author: archer@hsi86.hsi.com (Garry Archer)
- Date: Thu, 2 Apr 92 11:49:47 -0500
- While I was writing this I was instantly reminded of another English Ford of obvious American styling influence. The Capri built by Ford beginning in 1969 was one of Britain's favourite (modern day)
- /html/british-cars/1992-04/msg00038.html (8,392 bytes)
- 30. British Racing Cars For Sale (score: 1)
- Author: archer@hsi86.hsi.com (Garry Archer)
- Date: Fri, 10 Apr 92 09:56:59 -0400
- Hiya Gang. The missus picked up the local "Bargain News" (contains a photo section for cars). We love to get one once a while to check out the plethora of British cars for sale, especially after the
- /html/british-cars/1992-04/msg00179.html (7,740 bytes)
- 31. Re: Cars going over cliffs (score: 1)
- Author: archer@hsi86.hsi.com (Garry Archer)
- Date: Mon, 13 Apr 92 12:53:06 -0400
- If you watch Saturday Night Live, you'll know that "Tounces The Cat" drives a white Jaguar MkI (or MkII) over a cliff everytime (same piece of film has been used in old British shows like "The Saint"
- /html/british-cars/1992-04/msg00217.html (6,679 bytes)
- 32. Re: Wasting LBCs (score: 1)
- Author: archer@hsi86.hsi.com (Garry Archer)
- Date: Mon, 13 Apr 92 12:55:15 -0400
- Talk about waste... who can forget "The Italian Job"?!!! I still cry when I see that Aston Martin go over... - Garry ("That coulda been *my* car instead of trashing it!")
- /html/british-cars/1992-04/msg00218.html (6,717 bytes)
- 33. Re: Wasting LBCs (score: 1)
- Author: archer@hsi86.hsi.com (Garry Archer)
- Date: Wed, 15 Apr 92 09:57:58 -0400
- ... and I still cringe when I think about the Morgan in "War Of The Roses"... - Yrrag Rehcra
- /html/british-cars/1992-04/msg00309.html (6,620 bytes)
- 34. Re: Mistaken identity (score: 1)
- Author: archer@hsi86.hsi.com (Garry Archer)
- Date: Wed, 15 Apr 92 10:01:21 -0400
- Philip J Ethier asks: Or Timothy? Or Peter (Sellers in Casino Royale, remember!) ?
- /html/british-cars/1992-04/msg00310.html (6,990 bytes)
- 35. Re: DOT3 or DOT4 (score: 1)
- Author: archer@hsi86.hsi.com (Garry Archer)
- Date: Wed, 22 Apr 92 12:04:54 -0400
- Further to the discussion on brake/clutch fluids, I saved Roger Garnett's excellent list of appropriate fluids for your LBCs for my future reference. If Roger doesn't mind, I'll reprint the DOT[345]
- /html/british-cars/1992-04/msg00496.html (7,306 bytes)
- 36. SS / Jaguar (score: 1)
- Author: archer@hsi86.hsi.com (Garry Archer)
- Date: Thu, 23 Apr 92 09:44:45 -0400
- Hope I can help [solve some confusion] a little. We all know Swallow Sidecars started in a small building in Blackpool, England. Their first cars, graced with the now famous SS title, were produced
- /html/british-cars/1992-04/msg00537.html (8,687 bytes)
- 37. Re: Ford Cortina (score: 1)
- Author: archer@hsi86.hsi.com (Garry Archer)
- Date: Fri, 24 Apr 92 11:12:56 -0400
- Me Dad (in England) owned a couple of Ford Cortinas too. First, he had a Mk I "C" reg (registered August 1st 1964). It only had the 1198cc engine -- same engine as the larger Anglia option. This vers
- /html/british-cars/1992-04/msg00588.html (7,366 bytes)
- 38. Wolseley 1500 (score: 1)
- Author: archer@hsi86.hsi.com (Garry Archer)
- Date: Tue, 28 Apr 92 10:46:30 -0400
- For those wondering what a 1958-65 Wolseley 1500 (I mentioned in a recent Ford Cortina thread) looks like... Check out page 9 of the June 1992 issue (this months) of British Cars regarding the Monte
- /html/british-cars/1992-04/msg00647.html (7,478 bytes)
- 39. MGC for sale. (score: 1)
- Author: archer@hsi86.hsi.com (Garry Archer)
- Date: Thu, 30 Apr 92 09:58:44 -0400
- Considering the rarity of the MGC and the interest in MG[ABC]s on this list I thought I'd mention that I saw one for sale in the newspaper this week (in Connecticut). I don't have the ad with me (sor
- /html/british-cars/1992-04/msg00710.html (7,264 bytes)
- 40. Re: Sunbeam Harrington LeMans (score: 1)
- Author: archer@hsi86.hsi.com (Garry Archer)
- Date: Mon, 2 Mar 92 10:14:16 -0500
- xgg2356@dcmdc.dla.mil (James Fuerstenberg) is checking out a: A what? I've never heard of it... looking through me list of Sunbeam names (or Sunbeam-Talbot-Darracq since 1935): 3 Litre (1938-40) 4 Li
- /html/british-cars/1992-03/msg00006.html (8,599 bytes)
This search system is powered by
Namazu