max cooper wrote on Sun, 09 September 2007 17:42 |
Q: Why do the English drink warm beer?
A: Because they have Lucas refrigerators.
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Again when I designed my car, the then editor of "Road and track" magazine, Bob McClurg who did a story on my car, told me some of his horror stories with Lucas electronics in the British machines.(no affiliation with Terry's gear I hope). He told me that he flew the "Concord" overseas and when he landed, he got a tour of the cockpit and on every guage was the word Lucas. Bob said he nearly passed out. Lucas was very popular with the old British motorcycles too, such as Triumph, BSA, AJS/Matchless, Norton, Greeves, Volicette, Royal Enfield, etc. To this day when I occasionally tinker with a vintage Brittish bike, I still wonder what the method to their madness was.