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When all you needed were tools to fix cars

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No need for a laptop and degree in electronics to fix cars back then
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I still don't - I drive a Series 2A Landy.
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The Avenger had an extra special feature, if you were at a loose end you could sit and watch it rust.
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For a while I had a nice little sideline stripping the instruments out of scrapped Dolomites, Toledos, and Stags for kit car enthusiasts. They were the only bits on them worth having.
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My '91 Eunos Roadster is fixed with spanners etc. (AND they're metric........ :good: )

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I seemed to spend half my time, in my youth, pulling apart "A" series engines - A30, A35, A40, Moggies, Midgets, Sprites, Mini's (Elf, Hornet) 1100, 1300, Kestrel, Marina, Allegro, Ital, Metro, Maestro etc. Happy days working on my own in a workshop on a farm.
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A`hh A and B series engines and the Ford cross flows you have just reminded me of those wonderful times getting hands dirty.
I swear you could stand and watch the engine and see exactly how it was working and what every component was doing.
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I'm sure it was poking a bit of hose in my ear while balancing twin SU's that destroyed my hearing (nothing to do with 60 years of shooting) :)
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1066 wrote:I'm sure it was poking a bit of hose in my ear while balancing twin SU's that destroyed my hearing (nothing to do with 60 years of shooting) :)

I've still got the proper tool for doing that and a Mini clutch puller!
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#10 Post by snayperskaya »

Pete wrote:My '91 Eunos Roadster is fixed with spanners etc. (AND they're metric........ :good: )

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