TR4/4A Lucas parts

[Alex Grant]

I was always under the assumption that anything Lucas related had the word Lucas on the part. I ordered a Lucas dist.cap and not an aftermarket one, I get the cap ,the box it came in says Lucas but the cap is plain without any Lucas wording.Is it me or what.

 

[2long]

Sadly, Lucas now is not the same as Lucas then.

Dan

 

[Geo Hahn]

Yes, the old parts had Lucas on them - often cast into the piece (distributor caps, control boxes, coils, etc). Now you get a sticky label or perhaps just a name on the box.

 

[TR3driver]

I agree. The Lucas name has been bought and sold, sliced and diced so many times in the past 50 years that it's hard to tell who actually made your distributor cap.

I believe at the moment, Prestolite, Meritor, ZF Friedrichshafen, Delphi & Elta Lighting all have the right to use the Lucas name in some contexts. There are probably more.

 

[Alex Grant]

Guess I'm just living in the past.

 

[Geo Hahn]

Guess I'm just living in the past...

... as we all are. Or, at the very least, driving in the past.

A friend told me this story...

I think this story is true but I'm going to tell it anyway. It seems there was an older (but not as old as some of us) gentleman at an auto auction and he had just bought one of his top ten wants. So he had the car in the staging area with the hood up, looking down at the engine and probing gently with a small stick. An also older and much richer woman came up and began to speak to him. He, of course, was busy and didn't wish to be disturbed. So he ignored her. After some minutes of this one sided intervention the woman stated, “I don't know what you men are looking for in these old cars!” The gentleman finally looked slowly up at the matron and quietly replied... “Yesterday”.

 

[KVH]

That's a good story about looking for yesterday. Thanks for telling it, Joe.

(inside jab)

 

[Got_All_4]

Wish my wife looks like she did yesterday!