Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/04/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Clayton, That was awesome. I'm a car nut as well. I once learned from an old hippie in New Mexico that "you always have exactly what you need available to you when you need it, you just have to look." We rebuilt his 1776cc bug motor right there on the side of Interstate 40 and used parts that he picked up lying about in the dirt. I'm going to be starting a web-page soon of things that I've fixed or built with my pocket-knife. The number of items fixed must be in the thousands. Philip On Thursday 05 April 2007 01:27:33 R. Clayton McKee wrote: > Quoth the Hoppy : > > Philip, you have just made me quite ill. Never post any message > > again that includes the words Summicron, vise, vicegrips and a > > file. Yes, I do understand your circumstance ;-) > > So I'm guessing you wouldn't want to hear about running the 1976 > Watkins Glen Vintage Grand Prix in a an Allard J2-X with a firewall- > mounted fuel pump bracket fabbed on the spot from a cardboard > box and two rolls of corvette tape, using a handful of nylon cable > ties for hose clamps?? (We finished under our own power, which was > more than the factory-maintained Ferraris or birdcage did...) > > (Which was not quite so insane as replacing the head gasket on Ed > Shelton's MGB in his driveway at two in the morning in a pouring > North Texas Thunderboomer. It wasn't until the next morning that we > found out that a funnel cloud had gone apparently RIGHT overhead and > touched down about two miles away. Oops. We won the rally, though.) > > > If you can't fix the gear with a Gerbertool, a tin can lid, and a > chunk of wire, you're not ready to go into the field. > > > > -- > > > R. Clayton McKee http://www.rcmckee.com > Photojournalist rcmckee@rcmckee.com > P O Box 571900 voice/fax 713/783-3502 > Houston, TX 77257-1900 cell phone # on request > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information