Re: SER1 86" rear lights

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Diana is right on about these production variations. There are plenty  
of minor variations that took place depending on the year and even  
based on the intended market for export.  I had great difficulty  
replacing my distributor cap because it's the early high hat design  
which wasn't "supposed to be used" on '53 trucks and parts numbers  
didn't match the listings.  We do ourselves a disservice if we  
agonize over this as the factory was never the least bit concerned  
over what they hung on the engines or  wired into the lighting.  This  
is all a recent phenomenon that has grown up around the classic car  
industry that makes much of selling the "correct decals" , "correct  
this and correct that"    These are glorified farm tractors at the  
most utilitarian level.  We put a lot of effort into resuscitating  
them and enjoying their quirks but they are never going to appear at  
Pebble Beach and never going to be featured at a Barret's megabuck  
auction.

Happy Rovering
Wayne Perrin
On Sep 20, 2005, at 9:59 PM, Eighty Inch wrote:

> Allan
>
> I don't want to publicly flog James Taylor, but would like to flog  
> Bay View
> Books for the restoration manual going out of print.  After trying  
> for a
> year with numerous false buys, including money changing hands, it  
> is only in
> the last week that I have been offered one.  I just wanted to point  
> out that
> it was James and not Tom Taylor and that James is not, as are none  
> of us,
> the "infallible one".
>
> While I like S1's to be original we all understand that some of the  
> original
> parts are out of our budgets so some personalising of the vehicles  
> must be
> acceptable.  Just like every new owner personalised the vehicle  
> from the day
> it left the dealership.  Even ones that came off the assembly line had
> individual differences, some as part of orders others for design  
> reasons.
> It is also why some vehicles are restored to manufacturers specs  
> and others
> restored to functional "as is" specs.  I know you understand that,  
> having at
> least one in each category.
>
> Cheers
> Diana
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Allan Harding" <Allan.Harding@xxx.xxx.xx>
> To: <series1@xxxxxxxxx.xxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2005 9:14 AM
> Subject: Re: SER1 86" rear lights
>
>
>     Keep going guys,
>     Hot rod all the Series Is you can get your hands on. Go for broke,
> Keith Black engines, Rangie transmissions coil springs disk brakes  
> etc.
> Just don't come to me to get approval for historic registration.  In
> time those of us with vehicles which are as near as practically  
> original
> or are set up with true period equipment will be smiling.
>     Regarding the comments on James Taylor, while there are  
> acknowledged
> errors in the text of his book, it is the most definitive book  
> published
> on the topic to date and worth owning. There is no need to publicly  
> flog
> the guy. Some of the comments over the last couple of days are  
> bordering
> on libellous.
>     The colour thing may well be true for British home market 80"
> vehicles but they were offered in other colours in other markets and
> were possibly supplied to fleet owners in their choice of colour.
>     It is also worth noting that some of the vehicle numbers quoted  
> for
> the change of a particular part (most often the propriety parts from
> outside suppliers like Lucas or Girling etc.) are not definitive.
> Sometimes new parts were late arriving and the stock of superseded  
> parts
> reserved as spares stock was raided to keep production going. The  
> result
> is that the definitive statement that such and such a part superseded
> this one at a given vehicle number may not be totally correct in  
> all cases.
>     Cheers
>     Allan
>     Canberra, Australia
>
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