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Re: The year, 1962

oops it was a 750 not a 101, I had a 101 later. I currently use a '87 Spider as my daily car. The only "classic" I still own is a '52 Rolls Silver Dawn that I am hoping to restore one of these years...

LUCAS stands for:
Loose Unprotected Connections All Shorted by the way. Its scary to think they did electrics for aircraft also. Good thing they never got into pacemakers.

JAGUAR:
Jinxed Auto Guarantees Unreliability and Repairs

I never really cared about the heater much as I lived in AZ at the time. Motorola hired me out of college so I moved from the Chicago area to work there at the old 52st plant in Phoenix working in the Computer Services Group. The biggest thing with the 150 was the LUCAS bullit connectors (pronounced BULLSH*T connectors). They were bullet shaped metal crimped on connectors that plugged into a sleev with a slit in it and put inside a Bakelite tube to insulate it. They were open at the ends so moisture, dirt etc got in them and corroded them big time so every time you hit a bump or went around a corner fast you'd have a whole new set of electrical problems. They even used these stupid connectors for the grounding tie points. I finally got tired of chasing the gremlins and clipped out every one of the damn things and replaced them with those crimp together splice joiners that at least sealed the connections somewhat. Hardly ever had an electrical problem ever again. Curiously the other car in the picture, the 54 Sunbeam, hardly ever broke and I drove it 50 miles a day to and from work...
I had the misfortune of buying a brand new Miata the first year they came out and it was the biggest pile of crap I ever owned, in fact I never bought a new car ever again because of that experience. It actually broke down on the way home from the showroom and spent the first 3 weeks I owned it in the shop. It was never right and I kept refusing to accept it from the shop til they got it right and they wouldnt exchange it for another new one. I ended up having to get a lawyer to get my money back and they had already sold the Mercedes I traded in so they had to pay for that also. I ended up getting a '87 FIAT Bertone X1/9 and surprisingly it preformed better than the Miata in every way. Better mileage, better handing, faster etc. By 87 they had most the bugs worked out of the X1/9s although they were junk for most of the previous years. Unfortunately many were owned by college kids that thrashed them so not many survived it seems..

Dave

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