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Wow...one litre at a time, it would take me quite a while to accumulate 15 quarts to change the oil in my pickup...not so bad for the Fasty though! Stephen J. Jackson Commissioning Engineer, Petron Industries, Inc. SJackson@petronworld.com -----Original Message----- From: Dave Hall [mailto:dave@hallvw.clara.co.uk] Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2005 6:35 PM To: type3.org Subject: Re: [T3] Crate is away for the season! > What I've heard about Lucas was that during WW II they (probably by necessity) > made wiring harnesses out of copper plated iron/steel wire. Could be - there were many economies made during WWII. I was computerising more of my father's letters to his parents for that period just this morning. Among the scary details of raids over Germany was this piece "I managed to get a couple of good re-treaded tyres for the car (MG Magnette) - cost me £2 each, and I think they are good value - they are better than a cheap new tyre, which would have cost £2-15-0 and the best new tyres cost over £5 each in my size. These things are getting scarce, so it is as well to stock up before private car owners are forbidden to buy them - already garages are being told not to accept civilian repair jobs!" I heard the other day from the Bubble-car museum owner that in a few years people here (in Europe) won't be allowed to buy more than 1 litre of oil at a time - i.e. home oil changes will be illegal. Will I have to entrust that to a garage, and look forward to pulled studs or blocked sump screens? Time to pull up the anchors and head for a more civilised grossly-polluting country? ;-) Dave. UK VW Type 3 & 4 Club http://www.hallvw.clara.co.uk/ ------ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~