I wonder how many of us Tron guys are also into vintage cars.
I'm a Lotus fan. I've had a couple of Europas. Love em. The 67 S1 that Idrive at the moment is powered by a fuel injected Toyota 4AGE, and has NOoriginal electrical. lol
It is scary powerful, weighs nothing, and is totally reliable. Really funcar.
http://www.circleofwingsband.com/europa363/Europa1-800.jpg http://www.circleofwingsband.com/europa363/Interior2-800.jpgJim
At 03:03 PM 2/21/2012, you wrote:
It was a 1964 model as I recall. I didn't own that one; itbelonged to a friend. We complete rebuilt that car from the frame up asI did with the XK-150, which I did own. I forgot that I (briefly)owned a Triumph TR-3 back around 1971 or so, but it was stolen not longafter I replaced the drop-down top, reupholstered it and repainted it.Never got it back. A year later I bought a '59 MGA and we put a narrowedPontiac rear end in it and a 302 Chevrolet Z-28 motor. There wasn't muchLucas left when I was finished with it. It was a bit too much motor forthe car. Often, under vigorous acceleration from a rolling or standingstart, or when banging through the gears, the doors would open from theexcessive torque. Scary! So I welded the doors closed and put a roll barin it. That was an improvement, but the frame was still not up to thetask, so off came the body and out came the welding torch. I triedeverything I could think of to stiffen that frame, but I could nevercompletely solve the torque issue and handling could be a tadunpredictable at times. The thing was a rocket and just plain scared theshit out of everyone but me. It was a cool looking car with flaredfenders and huge tires (at the time) and I called it the "poor man'sCobra," which, except for brute power, it was most certainly not.Finally, after a year or so of trying to get it right, I got rid of it.
There was a guy who lived just a few houses down the street named BillPickford. My dad was his attorney and he had two Shelby 427 side-oilerCobras. I got to drive one of them a few times and it was always in mymind that I could build something like it. Wrong.
Pickford died in 1973 of brain cancer. His wife offered one of theCobra's to my dad for $7,000.00. He bought a Porsche instead. I neverforgave him for that, although I had a long-running affair with Porsches(I've had 9 of them and sold the last shortly after I got married.)
In a message dated 2/21/2012 2:30:58 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,gabru@comsec.net writes:
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- Having owned a MGA, XKE and a few other British âLucas basedâforms of transportation I agree
.absolutely horrible
- electrical system
yet another reason a British car will ~always~ letyouu down. But they are so damn much fun to drive!!
- What year was your E Type Frank?
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- I also have rewired a (59 XK-150 and an XKE) and probably two dozenor even more, British motorcycles. Lucas Electronics... "The namegoes on before the trouble begins..." Always fun.
- In a message dated 2/21/2012 1:55:04 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,wonggster@gmail.com writes:
- When I think of UK and electric I always think of the time I spentpulling solid core Lucas wire out of a friends Jaguar and rewiring thecar with lamp cord (speaker wire).
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