Autoshite seance

[Billy - Medhurst]

A pint or two with Roger Clark and Gerry Marshall would be great. The stories they must have had to tell........

[seth]

I'd send that second letter to Setright that I never got round to and try and arrange to meet him for a chat over a cup of coffee or something.  As he wrote to me 'Our paths may well cross again, or even coincide.'  Bugs me that I didn't pro-actively chase that eventuality.

 

Dunno what I'd have said to him, mind.

 

As for racing drivers of old, Jean Pierre Wimille would certainly have some tales to tell, and not just about racing cars.

[DSdriver]

Richard Buckminster Fuller.

I was lucky enough to attend a lecture he gave in London when I was at college. He had some great ideas but I would like to ask him what he was smoking when he only put three wheels on the dymaxion car.

[Bren]

I'd be asking Joseph Lucas (founder of Lucas) why the company motto became "home before dark."

 

I mean, it's not exactly a ringing endorsement of your products, is it?

[minolman]

I think you'll find the lucas motto belongs in the rumour and wives tales thread, along with their patent rights to the short circuit

[oman5]

John Z Delorean. "ok, what REALLY happened?"

[oman5]

Peter Foden. just to say well done for keeping ERF going for so long and making some cracking motors over the years.

[warren t claim]

A pint or two with Roger Clark and Gerry Marshall would be great. The stories they must have had to tell........

+1.And add Tony Lanfranchi to the list.

 

[gary_davidson]

James Hunt, anybody else joining us in the pub?

 

John Z Delorean. "ok, what REALLY happened?"

or ask him how did you get away with that one

[New POD]

So, who would you contact from the automotive spirit world to ask a specific question..?

 

I want to ask:

 

Alec Issigonis what he thinks about the new mini.

 

 

 

My dad wants him to Burn in Hell. He had a NEW mini in 1959, and it had 3 gearboxes in 3 months and leaked water through the floor, and was the reason my mum fell in love with him (he put her on the insurance when they were courting).  He reckons Issigonis was a maverick at best, and should have been made to fix every mini personally.   

 

I have to add that my dad thinks I'm an idiot for having owned and loved 4 mini's.  But his hatred of the things has worked in my favour, because when I wanted to add my youngest child on to the insurance on our 2001 Oxford built mini, he was happy to find £400 toward the £2K insurance bill, on the grounds that "at least she won't be in an old mini" (like my oldest was) .

 

I'd like to ask issigonis if he'd fancy participating in a DFMEA exercise, and a DFRM work shop with his 1959 design team.

 

*DFMEA - design failure modes effects analysis

DFRM - design for reliability and maintainability

[New POD]

I'd be asking Joseph Lucas (founder of Lucas) why the company motto became "home before dark."

 

I mean, it's not exactly a ringing endorsement of your products, is it?

 

I thought the moto was King of the Road and it was replaced with Prince of darkness

 

 

I'd like to ask Joe Lucas "did you really come home from Church on a Sunday and then make your staff stand at the foot of the stairs in Hilver (his home in Moseley Birmingham) whilst you delivered a sermon to them, and did you go to the same church as the Cadbury Family"

 

http://goo.gl/maps/L28HX  Lucas Industries management study centre circa 1960's to 1998

[Des]

I'd taunt Mr. Lucas by informing him that he was wasting his time simplifying his wiring looms with brilliant colour coding. The expense of using copper and brass and the effort of beautifully engineered switchgear was all in vain as every example of his work which failed after being attacked with scotch-loks, overloaded by extras that require a nail in the fusebox, and generally hacked about by kak handed imbeciles will be blamed solely on himself. Whenever someone's fitted a Mini grill with No.8, 1 3/4'' woodscrews intruding into the loom, and then had to drive around in the dark, that's Joes fault that is.

[saucedoctor]

@New Pod: Early Minis leaked through the floor because the seams were backwards.