Date:         Sat, 29 Oct 2011 14:24:46 -0700
Reply-To:     MICHAEL H <vwdash80@YAHOO.COM>
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From:         MICHAEL H <vwdash80@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Re: Spitfres and Joe Lucas
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... understandable - the Brits were still in war time depression ten years after ...

--- On Sat, 10/29/11, James Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM> wrote:

> From: James Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
> Subject: Re: Spitfres and Joe Lucas
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Date: Saturday, October 29, 2011, 1:53 PM
> Well, you can rest assured that his
> reply was in the realm of opinion, and not fact. An
> old-school German mechanic in town, who was brought here to
> service Dr Von Braun's cars, uses to tell me when I came by
> his shop looking for British stuff that "it was all made
> with hate"
> 
> Jim
> 
> 
> 
> On Oct 29, 2011, at 10:37 AM, Loren Busch <starwagen@GMAIL.COM>
> wrote:
> 
> > I sometimes think that it's a matter of opinion on
> this subject of Lucas
> > electrics, at least from the past.  About a year
> ago, on a photography list
> > that I'm on, somehow the same subject came up.  I
> made a comment about
> > needing a 'Lucas Smoke Injector' and got back a blast
> from one member about
> > how great Lucas electrics (and British cars in
> general) were and especially
> > compared to the horrible Bosch electrical
> components.  And I hadn't
> > mentioned Bosch, he threw that in on his own.
>