[Info-vax] Anyone in the DC area interested in an Integrity?

[Steven Schweda]

   I haven't looked lately.  Are they still selling sets of
three with the same shipping cost as one?


Richard B. Gilbert wrote:

> Back during the "gas crisis" a few gas stations were trying to sell
> gasoline by the liter.  The idea flew like a lead balloon!

   Around here, that was done by the places with old pumps,
which couldn't deal with the new, much higher price per gallon,
but the old pumps could do liters, and the per-liter price was
within their range.  When newer (wider) pumps became available,
the units went back to gallons.

> You can easily find metric wrenches (spanners for you Brits) largely
> because Japanese and German made automobiles require them.  Domestic
> cars used English hardware sizes the last time I looked.  (That may have
> changed without my noticing because I've been driving Japanese cars for
> many years.)

   Duh, yeah.  You should get out a little before making such
foolish claims.  GM started around 1980 with its X-body cars
(Skylark, Citation, Omega, Phoenix), for example.  My 1991
Taurus was essentially all-metric, except for the "1991
Taurus/Sable Car Shop Manual", which was written to look metric
by some clown with a calculator.  Among my favorites:

      Temporary spare tire estimated tread life: "3218.6 km
      (2000 miles)"

      Make sure that the oil level in the transaxle is "within
      6.35mm (1/4 inch)" of the hole.  (Get out your
      interferometer.)

      "... approximately 188mm (7 inches) ...".  (This was the
      length of a block of wood used to hold up the clutch
      pedal while removing the transaxle.)

      "... drill a 12.70mm (1/2-inch) hole ...".  (Step one in
      removing a core plug in the engine block.  Precision is
      critical here.)

      "-29.85 C below zero"

      "Using a 914mm (3-foot) length of ... wire ...".  (This
      was a tool used to cut the seal on the rear window
      glass.)

But all the fasteners were metric.