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[VintageLambo] Re: Inventions

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In a message dated 5/27/2003 9:51:00 AM Eastern Standard Time, zak@mighty.co.za writes: > I"m not sure which Italian cars your mind is running over, but firms like Alfa > Romeo and Fiat have had common or garden family cars with all-round disc brakes, > twin cam engines, and 5 speed gearboxes when most if not all equivalent British > cars (1963-) had live rears with leaf springs, drum brakes, > 4 speed gearboxes and wheezed along with pushrod valves. Uh, Zak - you"ve slipped a cog here, son. The first series production car to have 4 wheel disc brakes was the Jensen 541 Deluxe in 1957 and the Triumph TR-3 had the first front discs in 1956. FYI, while your Alfalfas (and Ferraris for that matter) were still making do with drum brakes, my old 58 MGA (the one I still race) had a 1600 cc double overhead cam engine with 108 bhp @ 6700 rpm, with Dunlop disc brakes all around - much to the dismay of the contemporary Giuliettas I used to regularly thrash. Oh yes - many British cars of the 50s had 5 speed gear boxes - they used Laycock de Normanville electrically operated over-drives instead of an other cluster in the box. My old TR-3 had 7 forward speeds in fact......(most other makes had OD only operating on 3rd and 4th, so they were _only_ 5 or 6 speed boxes). Bill Get A Free Psychic Reading! Your Online Answer To Life"s Important Questions. http://us.click.yahoo.com/Lj3uPC/Me7FAA/CNxFAA/9jLplB/TM Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to