From: Tegger on
kludge(a)panix.com (Scott Dorsey) wrote in news:hobho5$6hv$1
@panix2.panix.com:

> N8N <njnagel(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>>That reminds me of the last suspension job I did myself... on my '55
>>Studebaker. I got it all back together, eyeballed it and called it
>>good, and drove up to the alignment shop. I brough the shop manual
>>with me, with a sticky note on the page with the alignment specs and
>>procedures. They were unable to align the one front wheel - I tore
>>that corner back apart and here the NOS trunnion that I'd bought
>>didn't have the recess for the hex key to adjust it stamped in it!
>>D'OH!
>>
>>I think they felt sorry for me, because they only charged me a couple
>>bucks extra when I brought it back instead of charging me for a whole
>>'nother alignment.
>
> No, they felt sorry for you because you're driving a '55 Studebaker.
>
> I get the same sort of response when I call the BMW dealer up and ask
> for points and plugs.



You're buying plugs at the dealer? What kind does your Bimmer/Beemer take?

In 1965, Mr. Nagel's ownership of that Stude would have pegged him as a
schoolteacher, bookkeeper, or grocery-store clerk. In 2010 it makes him a
rakish daredevil; if he was a skydiver, he'd be the kind that would jump
out of the airplane without checking to see if he was actually wearing his
kid's backpack by mistake.


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Tegger

From: Scott Dorsey on
N8N <njnagel(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>I've been able to buy Bosch Supers at my FLAPS, although I haven't had
>to in quite a while. I share your opinion of the platinums, they are
>just not suitable for carbureted engines, foul a plug and you have to
>replace it, period. I have had clerks try to upsell me to platinums,
>no thank you!

I don't want supers! I want silvers! Although frankly I have not tried
the supers in many years and if I could get them locally I'd try them.
--scott

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"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."