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- From: esprit@netcom.com (Alan F. Perry)
- Subject: Re: '57 TR3 no engine go jap?
- Message-ID: <2s8mfvg.esprit@netcom.com>
- Date: Sun, 16 Aug 92 14:39:35 GMT
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- In article <713948443.F00001@blkcat.UUCP> Frank.Mallory@f417.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Frank Mallory) writes:
- > CA> Just what don't you guys like about Lucas kit ? Is there something
- > CA> in particular that has offended you, or is it just because they
- > CA> aren't made in the US of A ?
- >
- >I think much of their bad reputation was earned from the early electric fuel
- >pumps, then reinforced by the XK-E starters.
- >
-
- My own personal dislike of Lucas started with the three starters in two years
- that I had to replace in my TR7. It continued with the story of a voltage
- regulator in a friend's Europa in which a cardboard insulator caught fire.
- I have all sorts of first- and second-hand stories of interesting Lucas
- failures.
-
- alan
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