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- From: Frank.Mallory@f417.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Frank Mallory)
- Sender: Uucp@blkcat.UUCP
- Path: sparky!uunet!blkcat!Uucp
- Newsgroups: rec.autos.tech
- Subject: '57 TR3 no engine go jap?
- Message-ID: <713754024.F00001@blkcat.UUCP>
- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 15:18:11 -0500
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- JD> >: I have a '57 TR3 with no engine.
- JD> >: I i thinking about putting a Toyota or Nissan drive
- JD> >: train in it...
- JD> >: Has anyone out there done this?
- JD> >: I have heard nothing but bad things about the
- JD> >: original english tractor motor.
- JD> >: I love the lines of the car, but I'd like it to be reliable.
- JD>
- JD> Ya, I bet everyone who has sat on the side of the road while the Lucas,
- JD> Prince of Darkness, lights forgot to suck darkness and the ignition
- JD> forgot
- JD> what it was supposed to do because the piece of garbage bag wiretie
- JD> some "Fine British Craftsman" used to make the connection rusted in
- JD> two,
- JD> would have other terms for this "masterpiece" than Mona Lisa. Anyone
- JD> who
- JD> has viewed a Triumph crankshaft, a device that markedly resembles a
- JD> large gutter nail forged with loving care using a 10 pound sledge
- JD> hammer,
- JD> would concur.
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- How do you account for the many racing successes of the Triumph engine, in
- Morgans and possibly other makes as well as TRs?
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