This is kind of off topic, but there are links to some other interesting
   stuff.

   The Haynes manual page is good for chuckles too.

   Enjoy!

   http://www.mez.co.uk/lucas.html

   C. Smith

  I don't see anything funny...except maybe the stuff about the Land Rover...

  I owned three TR3s in my day, and my friends owned MGAs and an Austin
  Healey Sprite. Have no idea what that web page is talking about! <G

  Harley

  I had a Sprite too. The same part would keep failing over and over.
  I had a cast iron rear brake cylinder fail! Who ever heard of
  that happening? I suspect the problem was quality control
  on the British material.

  Paul Lamar


Paul, I had an MG midget, nice litle car, a sprite with a chrome strip on
the side. I was in a 24 hour rally with it in 1972 and came up on a TR3 in
the middle of the road at night. We stopped to offer headlights while he cut
wireing out of the tail lights to rewire his ingntion which quit with the
total loss of his under dash wireing harness. He declined and passed me 2
hours later while I was changing the condensor in the distributor on the
MG.I also rode my Royal Enfield  interceptor into a creek one night when the
headlight wireing came apart at  90 mph on a country road in WVa. The Lucs
CD ignition on that bike has never been a problem almost making up for the
myrad of electrical failures of every description on the 1968 Enfield with
the Lucas magneto the princess of darkness. Put me down as enjoying the land
rover post.

george grimes


I had a '54 MG TF in the early 60's and everything went wrong with it.
The shocks failed the brakes failed, the voltage regulator failed,
the arm fell of the distributor rotor, the engine swallowed a valve
and it caught fire once. And, that was all in the first year I owned it.
Was a neat looking car though.  The girls liked it.

Vince Homer