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Quite a few years back a good friend of mine brought a 69 Jag back to New England from California. The car needed much attention and I had just taken my GT6 apart at father-in-laws shop. The shop had a monster compressor and a bead blast cabinet, so most of our parts went through this "sand box" before primer and paint. Sometime along the restoration trail my friend Jeff, relates this story from the west coast.
He had the car for just a short while and was getting acclimated to British car ownership, the key point being, drive it two days, and fix it five. At the apartment house he was living in the only place to work on it was in the back yard. Most of the time the neighbor was looking over the common fence asking a ton of questions about British cars. It came to pass one day that He was working with that massive hood up (they had already talked in length about the length of it)while sitting comfortably on the front tire. Jeff was reattaching the fan to the front of the motor. The ever present Questioner was at the ready, waiting for some odd looking part or procedure to discuss. Just then Jeff slipped with the wrench (or spanner) and skinned his knuckle on the radiator. With out missing a beat, he reached over, unscrewed one of the damper cap from his carburetors, and put some "RED FLUID" on the cut, then he went back to work. The neighbor couldn't help but ask what that was all about. To which Jeff matter-of-factly replied
"The British car requires more than the usual amount of mechanical attention, and being under the hood more often you are bound to get a few cuts and scrapes. So the designers have Mercurochrome dispensers in the top of each carburetor where you can reach from either side of the engine, you can sterilize the cut and get right back to work."
The neighbor was blessedly speechless.
He had the car for just a short while and was getting acclimated to British car ownership, the key point being, drive it two days, and fix it five. At the apartment house he was living in the only place to work on it was in the back yard. Most of the time the neighbor was looking over the common fence asking a ton of questions about British cars. It came to pass one day that He was working with that massive hood up (they had already talked in length about the length of it)while sitting comfortably on the front tire. Jeff was reattaching the fan to the front of the motor. The ever present Questioner was at the ready, waiting for some odd looking part or procedure to discuss. Just then Jeff slipped with the wrench (or spanner) and skinned his knuckle on the radiator. With out missing a beat, he reached over, unscrewed one of the damper cap from his carburetors, and put some "RED FLUID" on the cut, then he went back to work. The neighbor couldn't help but ask what that was all about. To which Jeff matter-of-factly replied
"The British car requires more than the usual amount of mechanical attention, and being under the hood more often you are bound to get a few cuts and scrapes. So the designers have Mercurochrome dispensers in the top of each carburetor where you can reach from either side of the engine, you can sterilize the cut and get right back to work."
The neighbor was blessedly speechless.
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