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Ken Waller
Mon, Oct 4, 2021 8:36 PM

I had just the opposite experience with my 1959 Austin Haley, better known as a bug eye. Other than replacing the tires I never had an issue although I did have to use Castro R in the gearbox so I could drive it in the winter.

Ken Whaler
-----Original Message-----
From: Petards Mail List
Sent: Oct 4, 2021 4:20 PM
To: Petards Mail List
Subject: Re: GESO British car show

LOL!
 
I remember my old MG. Always in the shop, and always a long wait for
parts. Once, the throttle linkage broke, and I drove around for months
with baling wire as a "replacement part" until one arrived from British
Lowland. It was a lot of fun to drive -- when I could.
 
Dan Matyola
*https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery
*
 
 
 
On Mon, Oct 4, 2021 at 4:14 PM Larry Colen wrote:
 

Are they both for driving? Or is one for parts?

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I had just the opposite experience with my 1959 Austin Haley, better known as a bug eye. Other than replacing the tires I never had an issue although I did have to use Castro R in the gearbox so I could drive it in the winter. Ken Whaler -----Original Message----- From: Petards Mail List Sent: Oct 4, 2021 4:20 PM To: Petards Mail List Subject: Re: GESO British car show LOL!   I remember my old MG. Always in the shop, and always a long wait for parts. Once, the throttle linkage broke, and I drove around for months with baling wire as a "replacement part" until one arrived from British Lowland. It was a lot of fun to drive -- when I could.   Dan Matyola *https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery *       On Mon, Oct 4, 2021 at 4:14 PM Larry Colen wrote:   > > > Are they both for driving? Or is one for parts? > > -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-leave@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.  
DJ
Daniel J. Matyola
Mon, Oct 4, 2021 8:44 PM

The "resonators" were so close to the ground that they were constantly
getting damaged, and they were difficult to replace.
I was driving on Route 17 in NC late one Sunday when my foot suddenly hit
the firewall.  The throttle linkage had snapped.  I managed to jam a twig
under the throttle so I could drive at a max of 15 mph down the dark
rural highway, pulling over whenever anyone approached from my rear.  I was
fortunate to find a local at a gas station that was already closed for the
night to look at it for me.  He managed to use baling wire to temporarily
replace the throttle linkage so I could drive it home.  On Monday, I took
it to the local sports car shop, and they called to get a replacement part,
but were told it would take 2 weeks.  It actually took 2 months.
Meanwhile, I'm driving around with the baling wire to control my speed.  It
worked, but was very, very stiff.  Needless to say, I didn't make any
unnecessary long trips.

Dan Matyola
https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery
https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery

On Mon, Oct 4, 2021 at 4:37 PM Ken Waller kwaller@peoplepc.com wrote:

I had just the opposite experience with my 1959 Austin Haley, better known
as a bug eye. Other than replacing the tires I never had an issue although
I did have to use Castro R in the gearbox so I could drive it in the winter.

Ken Whaler
-----Original Message-----
From: Petards Mail List
Sent: Oct 4, 2021 4:20 PM
To: Petards Mail List
Subject: Re: GESO British car show

LOL!

I remember my old MG. Always in the shop, and always a long wait for
parts. Once, the throttle linkage broke, and I drove around for months
with baling wire as a "replacement part" until one arrived from British
Lowland. It was a lot of fun to drive -- when I could.

Dan Matyola
*https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery
*

On Mon, Oct 4, 2021 at 4:14 PM Larry Colen wrote:

Are they both for driving? Or is one for parts?

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The "resonators" were so close to the ground that they were constantly getting damaged, and they were difficult to replace. I was driving on Route 17 in NC late one Sunday when my foot suddenly hit the firewall. The throttle linkage had snapped. I managed to jam a twig under the throttle so I could drive at a max of 15 mph down the dark rural highway, pulling over whenever anyone approached from my rear. I was fortunate to find a local at a gas station that was already closed for the night to look at it for me. He managed to use baling wire to temporarily replace the throttle linkage so I could drive it home. On Monday, I took it to the local sports car shop, and they called to get a replacement part, but were told it would take 2 weeks. It actually took 2 months. Meanwhile, I'm driving around with the baling wire to control my speed. It worked, but was very, very stiff. Needless to say, I didn't make any unnecessary long trips. Dan Matyola *https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery <https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery>* On Mon, Oct 4, 2021 at 4:37 PM Ken Waller <kwaller@peoplepc.com> wrote: > I had just the opposite experience with my 1959 Austin Haley, better known > as a bug eye. Other than replacing the tires I never had an issue although > I did have to use Castro R in the gearbox so I could drive it in the winter. > > > Ken Whaler > -----Original Message----- > From: Petards Mail List > Sent: Oct 4, 2021 4:20 PM > To: Petards Mail List > Subject: Re: GESO British car show > > LOL! > > I remember my old MG. Always in the shop, and always a long wait for > parts. Once, the throttle linkage broke, and I drove around for months > with baling wire as a "replacement part" until one arrived from British > Lowland. It was a lot of fun to drive -- when I could. > > Dan Matyola > *https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery > * > > > > On Mon, Oct 4, 2021 at 4:14 PM Larry Colen wrote: > > > > > > > Are they both for driving? Or is one for parts? > > > > > -- > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-leave@pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > > > -- > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-leave@pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions.
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John
Mon, Oct 4, 2021 10:52 PM

That must have been a while back. When I got mine (early 90s) you could get
every part for one - including a complete body - from Victoria British Ltd. in
Lenexa, KS (looks like they've been bought out by Moss Motors) or from The
Roadster Factory in Carlisle, PA.

Every part except one - the air pump for the emissions system was no longer
available ... BUT

Turned out Lucas had licensed the design to Toyota and the Corolla air pump from
AutoZone would fit.

You just had to take the mounting bracket off & rotate it 90 degrees to get it
back into the original position so it would fit the MGB.

On 10/4/2021 16:44:54, Daniel J. Matyola wrote:

The "resonators" were so close to the ground that they were constantly
getting damaged, and they were difficult to replace.
I was driving on Route 17 in NC late one Sunday when my foot suddenly hit
the firewall.  The throttle linkage had snapped.  I managed to jam a twig
under the throttle so I could drive at a max of 15 mph down the dark
rural highway, pulling over whenever anyone approached from my rear.  I was
fortunate to find a local at a gas station that was already closed for the
night to look at it for me.  He managed to use baling wire to temporarily
replace the throttle linkage so I could drive it home.  On Monday, I took
it to the local sports car shop, and they called to get a replacement part,
but were told it would take 2 weeks.  It actually took 2 months.
Meanwhile, I'm driving around with the baling wire to control my speed.  It
worked, but was very, very stiff.  Needless to say, I didn't make any
unnecessary long trips.

Dan Matyola
https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery
https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery

On Mon, Oct 4, 2021 at 4:37 PM Ken Waller kwaller@peoplepc.com wrote:

I had just the opposite experience with my 1959 Austin Haley, better known
as a bug eye. Other than replacing the tires I never had an issue although
I did have to use Castro R in the gearbox so I could drive it in the winter.

Ken Whaler
-----Original Message-----
From: Petards Mail List
Sent: Oct 4, 2021 4:20 PM
To: Petards Mail List
Subject: Re: GESO British car show

LOL!

I remember my old MG. Always in the shop, and always a long wait for
parts. Once, the throttle linkage broke, and I drove around for months
with baling wire as a "replacement part" until one arrived from British
Lowland. It was a lot of fun to drive -- when I could.

Dan Matyola
*https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery
*

On Mon, Oct 4, 2021 at 4:14 PM Larry Colen wrote:

Are they both for driving? Or is one for parts?

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That must have been a while back. When I got mine (early 90s) you could get every part for one - including a complete body - from Victoria British Ltd. in Lenexa, KS (looks like they've been bought out by Moss Motors) or from The Roadster Factory in Carlisle, PA. Every part except one - the air pump for the emissions system was no longer available ... BUT Turned out Lucas had licensed the design to Toyota and the Corolla air pump from AutoZone would fit. You just had to take the mounting bracket off & rotate it 90 degrees to get it back into the original position so it would fit the MGB. On 10/4/2021 16:44:54, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: > The "resonators" were so close to the ground that they were constantly > getting damaged, and they were difficult to replace. > I was driving on Route 17 in NC late one Sunday when my foot suddenly hit > the firewall. The throttle linkage had snapped. I managed to jam a twig > under the throttle so I could drive at a max of 15 mph down the dark > rural highway, pulling over whenever anyone approached from my rear. I was > fortunate to find a local at a gas station that was already closed for the > night to look at it for me. He managed to use baling wire to temporarily > replace the throttle linkage so I could drive it home. On Monday, I took > it to the local sports car shop, and they called to get a replacement part, > but were told it would take 2 weeks. It actually took 2 months. > Meanwhile, I'm driving around with the baling wire to control my speed. It > worked, but was very, very stiff. Needless to say, I didn't make any > unnecessary long trips. > > Dan Matyola > *https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery > <https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery>* > > > > On Mon, Oct 4, 2021 at 4:37 PM Ken Waller <kwaller@peoplepc.com> wrote: > >> I had just the opposite experience with my 1959 Austin Haley, better known >> as a bug eye. Other than replacing the tires I never had an issue although >> I did have to use Castro R in the gearbox so I could drive it in the winter. >> >> >> Ken Whaler >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Petards Mail List >> Sent: Oct 4, 2021 4:20 PM >> To: Petards Mail List >> Subject: Re: GESO British car show >> >> LOL! >> >> I remember my old MG. Always in the shop, and always a long wait for >> parts. Once, the throttle linkage broke, and I drove around for months >> with baling wire as a "replacement part" until one arrived from British >> Lowland. It was a lot of fun to drive -- when I could. >> >> Dan Matyola >> *https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery >> * >> >> >> >> On Mon, Oct 4, 2021 at 4:14 PM Larry Colen wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> Are they both for driving? Or is one for parts? >>> >>> -- Science - Questions we may never find answers for. Religion - Answers we must never question.
DJ
Daniel J. Matyola
Tue, Oct 5, 2021 8:25 PM

Mine was a 1964 that I bought in 1965, when the owner flew his jet into the
Atlantic.

Dan Matyola
https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery
https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery

On Tue, Oct 5, 2021 at 4:22 AM John jsessoms002@nc.rr.com wrote:

That must have been a while back. When I got mine (early 90s) you could
get
every part for one - including a complete body - from Victoria British
Ltd. in
Lenexa, KS (looks like they've been bought out by Moss Motors) or from The
Roadster Factory in Carlisle, PA.

Mine was a 1964 that I bought in 1965, when the owner flew his jet into the Atlantic. Dan Matyola *https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery <https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery>* On Tue, Oct 5, 2021 at 4:22 AM John <jsessoms002@nc.rr.com> wrote: > That must have been a while back. When I got mine (early 90s) you could > get > every part for one - including a complete body - from Victoria British > Ltd. in > Lenexa, KS (looks like they've been bought out by Moss Motors) or from The > Roadster Factory in Carlisle, PA. > >
LC
Larry Colen
Tue, Oct 5, 2021 9:33 PM

On Oct 5, 2021, at 1:25 PM, Daniel J. Matyola danmatyola@gmail.com wrote:

Mine was a 1964 that I bought in 1965, when the owner flew his jet into the
Atlantic.

When I bought my 69 B I was teaching performance driving about one weekend a month at the local race tracks.  I bought it for a buck, spent a few thou getting it in shape and it was my daily driver commuting about 40 miles each way, as well as spending a few hours cumulative a month at speed on race tracks.  It was pretty damned reliable, until I decided that the engine needed to be rebuilt, and after that pretty much everything that went wrong could be pretty squarely blamed on my attempts to get “a little more performance” out of it.

In college I had a ’68 Sprite that was all in all pretty reliable.  When I graduated I bought a ’64 midget body and “rebodied” it, ending up with the nice earlier body, the big 1275cc motor and disk brakes.  Unfortunately, a couple years later, I was in stop and go traffic, thought I saw someone crawling over the barrier on my left on the freeway, and just as I looked the car ahead of me stopped.  I did get it back on the road, but the suspension was wonky and I ended up selling it to a friend.

I may have already bored some of you with these pictures of two incarnations of my sprite.  The first is of when it had the ’68 body, the second was right after I turned it into a ’64:
http://www.red4est.com/lrc/racer_html/miscpix.html
The fun thing about the photos of the later incarnation isn’t the skinny earlier version of myself, it is that the older chap in the photos is Donald Healey.

One day,  I went with some friends to an autocross in Sacramento, about 120 miles away. Our little caravan was one Sprite and three Fiat X1/9s.  We had to stop about every forty miles to fix something on one of the fiats. At one of the stops I made the mistake of trying to deal with a miniscule water leak and ended up tearing one of the radiator hoses apart.

The Ford Cortina I raced was terribly underpowered, but pretty damned reliable.

That must have been a while back. When I got mine (early 90s) you could
get
every part for one - including a complete body - from Victoria British
Ltd. in
Lenexa, KS (looks like they've been bought out by Moss Motors) or from The
Roadster Factory in Carlisle, PA.

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> On Oct 5, 2021, at 1:25 PM, Daniel J. Matyola <danmatyola@gmail.com> wrote: > > Mine was a 1964 that I bought in 1965, when the owner flew his jet into the > Atlantic. When I bought my 69 B I was teaching performance driving about one weekend a month at the local race tracks. I bought it for a buck, spent a few thou getting it in shape and it was my daily driver commuting about 40 miles each way, as well as spending a few hours cumulative a month at speed on race tracks. It was pretty damned reliable, until I decided that the engine needed to be rebuilt, and after that pretty much everything that went wrong could be pretty squarely blamed on my attempts to get “a little more performance” out of it. In college I had a ’68 Sprite that was all in all pretty reliable. When I graduated I bought a ’64 midget body and “rebodied” it, ending up with the nice earlier body, the big 1275cc motor and disk brakes. Unfortunately, a couple years later, I was in stop and go traffic, thought I saw someone crawling over the barrier on my left on the freeway, and just as I looked the car ahead of me stopped. I did get it back on the road, but the suspension was wonky and I ended up selling it to a friend. I may have already bored some of you with these pictures of two incarnations of my sprite. The first is of when it had the ’68 body, the second was right after I turned it into a ’64: http://www.red4est.com/lrc/racer_html/miscpix.html The fun thing about the photos of the later incarnation isn’t the skinny earlier version of myself, it is that the older chap in the photos is Donald Healey. One day, I went with some friends to an autocross in Sacramento, about 120 miles away. Our little caravan was one Sprite and three Fiat X1/9s. We had to stop about every forty miles to fix something on one of the fiats. At one of the stops I made the mistake of trying to deal with a miniscule water leak and ended up tearing one of the radiator hoses apart. The Ford Cortina I raced was terribly underpowered, but pretty damned reliable. > > Dan Matyola > *https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery > <https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery>* > > On Tue, Oct 5, 2021 at 4:22 AM John <jsessoms002@nc.rr.com> wrote: > >> That must have been a while back. When I got mine (early 90s) you could >> get >> every part for one - including a complete body - from Victoria British >> Ltd. in >> Lenexa, KS (looks like they've been bought out by Moss Motors) or from The >> Roadster Factory in Carlisle, PA. >> > >> > -- > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-leave@pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. > -- Larry Colen lrc@red4est.com
J
John
Wed, Oct 6, 2021 5:23 PM

Bummer! Bet that ruined his whole day.

On 10/5/2021 16:25:17, Daniel J. Matyola wrote:

Mine was a 1964 that I bought in 1965, when the owner flew his jet into the
Atlantic.

Dan Matyola
https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery
https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery

On Tue, Oct 5, 2021 at 4:22 AM John jsessoms002@nc.rr.com wrote:

That must have been a while back. When I got mine (early 90s) you could
get
every part for one - including a complete body - from Victoria British
Ltd. in
Lenexa, KS (looks like they've been bought out by Moss Motors) or from The
Roadster Factory in Carlisle, PA.

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Bummer! Bet that ruined his whole day. On 10/5/2021 16:25:17, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: > Mine was a 1964 that I bought in 1965, when the owner flew his jet into the > Atlantic. > > Dan Matyola > *https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery > <https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery>* > > On Tue, Oct 5, 2021 at 4:22 AM John <jsessoms002@nc.rr.com> wrote: > >> That must have been a while back. When I got mine (early 90s) you could >> get >> every part for one - including a complete body - from Victoria British >> Ltd. in >> Lenexa, KS (looks like they've been bought out by Moss Motors) or from The >> Roadster Factory in Carlisle, PA. >> > >> > -- > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-leave@pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. > -- Science - Questions we may never find answers for. Religion - Answers we must never question.