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#61 of 552 by Mr_Shiftright HOST Jun 05, 2001 (10:21 pm)
Different company, different times (thank god).   Actually, I eliminated almost 100% of the electrical problems on an MGB by replacing the battery cables, replacing all the fuses and cleaning the fuse holders, and installing an alternator. Abut a $150 investment.   The Lucas generators were very very bad. Curse them!
#62 of 552 by rea98d Jun 06, 2001 (7:33 am)
So Lucas Aerospace isn't the same as Lucas you may find in a Jag or MG? That's a releif. Maybe Lucas aerospace should change their name, considering who they are being affiliated with in the minds of the public!
#63 of 552 Mr. Shiftright: What haunts me is the initial CNN report by kinley Jun 06, 2001 (7:44 am)
of the incident. CNN obtained a VCR tape of a party on a deck showing the ascending flare of the SAM prior to the plane being struck. The CIA confiscated that tape immediately. "We don't want the public to know how honestly they are vulnerable to such attacks as it would diminish the air travel industry and the government taxes associated with it." How easy is it to prevent such an attack compared to the easyness of getting some insignificant reporter to confess a hoax? We will never know what they won't tell us.
#64 of 552 by Mr_Shiftright HOST Jun 06, 2001 (9:01 am)
All you have to do is examine the credentials of the "witnesses" and "experts" supporting this new conspiracy theory, and the word HOAX just leaps out at you. I certainly don't believe a word of it. Just some people trying to make a buck or get on TV. Pitiful.
#65 of 552 by dgraves1 Jun 06, 2001 (10:33 am)
I didn't mean to imply that Lucas Aerospace was a different company than the automotive supplier. I think they are different divisions of the same company. Sometimes different divisions of the same corporation can have very different reliability (Think Saturn).
#66 of 552 by Mr_Shiftright HOST Jun 06, 2001 (3:24 pm)
Is Lucas automotive still in business? I haven't kept up!
#67 of 552 by rea98d Jun 07, 2001 (7:00 am)
Well, the only british car makers are foreign owned now, so I doubt they have any customers left. Even before Ford bought them out, many of the "Lucas" electronics on Jags were made by Bosch and sold by liscense under the Lucas name.
#68 of 552 by dgraves1 Jun 07, 2001 (10:14 am)
It turns out Lucas was purchased by TRW in 1999. Judging by the website TRW is trying to let the Lucas name die out. There isn't a single mention of it, except in the history section where it mentions the acquisition. http://www.lucas.co.uk/home/main/1,,,00.html
#69 of 552 Lucas strikes again... by andre1969 Jun 07, 2001 (10:52 am)
I used to have a friend whose last name is Lucas. His father was a bus mechanic and self-proclaimed know-it-all. I let him do some work on my Dart, which he did by the spit-and-baling wire technique.   Ever since then, my friends and I used to call any shoddy work on a car as "Lucas"...as in "Hey, look at that Lucas-ed up paint job!", or "Look at the Lucas-job they did on that exhaust system!" I guess we didn't know how close to home we were hitting   -Andre
#70 of 552 66 MUSTANG by djg66 Jun 11, 2001 (7:30 am)
I PURCHASED MY DREAM CAR, A 66 MUSTANG 289 COUPE A YEAR AGO. AFTER 2 MONTHS OF OWNING THIS CAR I WAS HIT BY A STOLEN CAR, WHO RAN A RED LIGHT AND RAN. I CAN TELL YOU FROM EXPERIENCE, THAT YOU DO NOT WANT TO EVER EXPEREINCE AN ACCIDENT IN AN OLDER CAR. THE CARS TODAY ARE BUILT TO FALL APART AND ABSORD THE IMPACT, OLDER CARS ARENT. IT SOUNDED LIGHT A TRAIN WAS RIPPING THREW THE FRONT OF MY CAR. MY LEGS WERE BOTH BRUISED FROM THE STEERING WHEEL AND CENTER CONSOLE. THE SEAT DOESNT LOCK FORWARD, SO THERES MOVEMENT AS YOU BOUNCE AROUND. ITS JUST INCREDIBLE HOW MUCH DAMAGE ONE OF THESE OLDER CARS CAN DO TO YOU. I USE TO LOVE OLDER CARS, I NOW LOOK AT THEM DIFFERENTLY. STILL LOVE THEM BUT WOULD NEVER CONSIDER DRIVING THEM DAILY. I ONLY TAKE MINE OUT FOR SHORT TRIPS OR AT LOW TRAFFIC TIMES. PEOPLE OFTEN SWERVE INTO ME WHILE LOOKING AT MY RED STANG. OTHERS JUST WANT TO RACE, SOMETHING YOU JUST DONT DO WITH A 35 YR OLD CAR WITH 224,000 MILES ON IT. THE ENGINE WOULD DO IT BUT THE SUSPENSION WOULD TAKE THE BLUNT OF IT AND STOPPING, WELL, MAYBE YOU'LL STOP AT THE END. I LOVE THE POWER FROM THESE CARS BUT I THINK YOU SHOULD KEEP THAT JOY FOR THE WEEKENDS.

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