Hats Off !!!

Ayup, BFU.

And don't forget the Veg-a-Matics.

And look how well that turned out for everyone!

GM's biggest mistake with the Chevette was not installin dual exhausts as standard equipment. It gets very difficult pushing a wheelbarrow with only one handle.

Har!

You are right although I was talking in a more general way. But if you want to apply for a job on an oil drilling it would be best to show up in a clean blue work shirt, Levi's and Red Wing work boots. Probably not today, but in years past the drawstring for a sack of flake tobacco hanging out of a shirt pocket might be a good idea too :-)

I carried Chevette-specific tools to help another tech fix his in the company parking lot. It wasn't hard, just different, like needing a

A mechanical engineer friend drove his Vega over 100,000 miles without a problem by paying attention to its preventative maintenance, mainly fluid levels.

They weren't meant for owners whose religion opposed opening the hood. The assumption was that buyers of small foreign cars were used to more frequent maintenance, weekly for some British vehicles.

-jsw

The engine in the Chevette was an old number from Opel, in Germany. It was the smaller answer to our old GM Iron Duke 4-cylinder. A really basic engine, it was easy to tune and fix -- out of necessity.

I had a variety of British cars, old and new. It was very thoughtful of them to put things like an external knob on the distributor of the old BMC B-engine (the 948 cc version), because you had to adjust ignition timing about once every week. And the external jet-adjusting nuts on S.U. carburators were likewise helpful for those weekly tuneups, if your engine had two of them, because they were constantly getting out of sync

I don't miss it, though. If your car is your hobby, that's one thing. If it's your travel appliance, today's engines are a lot better.

I think that's true everywhere, John. There is a lot more tolerance of dress options these days, but not of dirt or sloppiness. If they don't respect themselves, they probably won't respect their employer or anyone else.

Jeez. Bull Durham? You had to lean back to keep the tobacco from falling out.

We had dinner with friends in a nice, but mid-priced Argentine restaurant last night. I looked around -- not a hat in sight.

Where you see them a lot is in cafes and diners that cater to working men for breakfast and lunch. Personally, I take mine off whenever I'm indoors -- except in my own house. In a restaurant, I sit on the soft part and let the bill stick out from under my leg. Maintaining the proper curve of the bill is very important for one's cultural identity....

Correction, that was the BMC A-Series engine, which was the smaller one.

No I'd say even that, too. Employers still need dirty work done.

Well, if you're health conscious, then diabetes and baldness shouldn't real ly be a factor in ones appearance, as someone has somewhat already pointed out in this thread. I'd say that a mid-Manhattan Argentine steak house is quite a ways from a downmarket atmosphere.

(I recall that after the wealthy countries of the world beat the daylights out of each other in World War One, Argentina became the world's wealthiest nation)

Which thread are you reading?

Carteret, NJ, not Manhatten.

Re: Hats Off! (I was referring to the third post from the top by Pefhany)

Nice spelling, BTW. you could spell Carteret as Carteray, too. My favorite part of Jersey is around Middletown. The beach is so far ou into the Atlantic that the heroine needles can't wash up. (I like Jones Beach on Long Island, too)

Treat the Chevette or Vega like an OIpel or Vauxhaull, and they would treat you relatively well.

One thing with British cars - you had to open the hood and fondle their nuts on a weekly basis to keep them happy!!