"Stewart Pinkerton" wrote in message
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On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 21:20:29 +0100, "Keith G"
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"Nick Gorham" wrote in message
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Keith G wrote:
r.

**That was the thrust of my argument. MOSFETs have so many
disadvantages,
there seems to be little point in using them. Except for rock bands,
of
course. They are tough little critters.

Jeez, Nick - I never wrote no such thing!

(For the record - I don't really give a FF about SS - if it don't glow,
it
ain't gonna go......!)

Buy a Naim, and you can have both! :-)


Or early MF, I gather........ :-)

"Stewart Pinkerton" wrote in message
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On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 21:23:17 +0100, "Keith G"
wrote:

"Stewart Pinkerton" wrote in message
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On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 15:36:06 +0100, Chris Morriss
wrote:

Oh heavens Keith. I never realised you once had a Vauxhall Nova. (Or
is
it that the vocabulary has never left you?)

I once had a 1.4 SR. Lovely little car it was at the time, and still
looks good.

Swim had one of those (before my time) and loved it apparently. She has
got
an MR2 now, which will show about 145 on the clock - but don't tell *her*
that FFS!

One of the 'big wing' versions, I presume?


It ain't too young now (J-reg) and got the rear spoiler - is that what u
mean? She's had it from brand new and won't part with it (yet) - I believe
it followed straight after the Nova.



Those were fun days, actually. I worked for Hughes Aircraft, and when
it was taken over by GM, the senior guys got this 'roll plan' deal,
where we had a new GM car every nine months or so, so we'd have all
kinds of odd cars to play with, knowing that if we didn't like them,
we only had to keep 'em for nine months. I had that Nova (which was
*much* better than I expected), two Astra GTEs, and a Manta.


Reminds me that (despite one or two stale, geeky-boy 'Vauxhaul Nova'
remarks) the *only* Vauxhall that I owned and drove (as opposed to owning
them, never getting in them and other people driving them) was a Victor many
years back. It was white, had twin headlights (FD?) and I'm struggling to
remember if it had a bench seat and column change. A number of my early cars
(and a Hi-Lux puckup truck) did - I love column change.....

Wonder if some marketing type, desperate for something 'new', will
re-introduce it?

For the 'record' (to get back on-topic) the only Nova I ever drove was in
Portugal and was, in fact, a Corsa (before they had Corsas over here). It
was a last minute decision to hire and the driver's window was completely
collapsed - I pointed it out to the hire girl and she said 'don't worry -
you won't need it'! How sodding right she was, I'd have damn soon taken the
bleddy doors off, if I had had my Swiss Army knife with me (no A/C).......

"Stewart Pinkerton" wrote in message
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On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 21:23:17 +0100, "Keith G"
wrote:

"Stewart Pinkerton" wrote in message
...
On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 15:36:06 +0100, Chris Morriss
wrote:

Oh heavens Keith. I never realised you once had a Vauxhall Nova. (Or
is
it that the vocabulary has never left you?)

I once had a 1.4 SR. Lovely little car it was at the time, and still
looks good.

Swim had one of those (before my time) and loved it apparently. She has
got
an MR2 now, which will show about 145 on the clock - but don't tell *her*
that FFS!

One of the 'big wing' versions, I presume?


It ain't too young now (J-reg) and got the rear spoiler - is that what u
mean? She's had it from brand new and won't part with it (yet) - I believe
it followed straight after the Nova.



Those were fun days, actually. I worked for Hughes Aircraft, and when
it was taken over by GM, the senior guys got this 'roll plan' deal,
where we had a new GM car every nine months or so, so we'd have all
kinds of odd cars to play with, knowing that if we didn't like them,
we only had to keep 'em for nine months. I had that Nova (which was
*much* better than I expected), two Astra GTEs, and a Manta.


Reminds me that (despite one or two stale, geeky-boy 'Vauxhaul Nova'
remarks) the *only* Vauxhall that I owned and drove (as opposed to owning
them, never getting in them and other people driving them) was a Victor many
years back. It was white, had twin headlights (FD?) and I'm struggling to
remember if it had a bench seat and column change. A number of my early cars
(and a Hi-Lux puckup truck) did - I love column change.....

Wonder if some marketing type, desperate for something 'new', will
re-introduce it?

For the 'record' (to get back on-topic) the only Nova I ever drove was in
Portugal and was, in fact, a Corsa (before they had Corsas over here). It
was a last minute decision to hire and the driver's window was completely
collapsed - I pointed it out to the hire girl and she said 'don't worry -
you won't need it'! How sodding right she was, I'd have damn soon taken the
bleddy doors off, if I had had my Swiss Army knife with me (no A/C).......

Keith G wrote:
"Nick Gorham" wrote in message
.. .

Keith G wrote:
r.

**That was the thrust of my argument. MOSFETs have so many

disadvantages,

there seems to be little point in using them. Except for rock bands, of
course. They are tough little critters.





Jeez, Nick - I never wrote no such thing!

(For the record - I don't really give a FF about SS - if it don't glow, it
ain't gonna go......!)





Sorry Keith, sloppy text cutting.

Some pics to make up for it.

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/paulr.b...ages/212bb.jpg

And to give a sense of scale.

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/paulr.b...paradecrop.jpg

--
Nick

Keith G wrote:
"Nick Gorham" wrote in message
.. .

Keith G wrote:
r.

**That was the thrust of my argument. MOSFETs have so many

disadvantages,

there seems to be little point in using them. Except for rock bands, of
course. They are tough little critters.





Jeez, Nick - I never wrote no such thing!

(For the record - I don't really give a FF about SS - if it don't glow, it
ain't gonna go......!)





Sorry Keith, sloppy text cutting.

Some pics to make up for it.

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/paulr.b...ages/212bb.jpg

And to give a sense of scale.

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/paulr.b...paradecrop.jpg

--
Nick

"Nick Gorham" wrote

Sorry Keith, sloppy text cutting.

Some pics to make up for it.

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/paulr.b...ages/212bb.jpg

And to give a sense of scale.

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/paulr.b...paradecrop.jpg




Mmmm! (Purrrrrr......... :-)


(I take it that bottle of Polish Potato Wine ain't no 'miniature'
then......?)

"Nick Gorham" wrote

Sorry Keith, sloppy text cutting.

Some pics to make up for it.

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/paulr.b...ages/212bb.jpg

And to give a sense of scale.

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/paulr.b...paradecrop.jpg




Mmmm! (Purrrrrr......... :-)


(I take it that bottle of Polish Potato Wine ain't no 'miniature'
then......?)

"Keith G" wrote in message ...
(...)


Swim had one of those (before my time) and loved it apparently. She has got
an MR2 now, which will show about 145 on the clock

That's 1:45, on the time clock.

S.

"Keith G" wrote in message ...
(...)


Swim had one of those (before my time) and loved it apparently. She has got
an MR2 now, which will show about 145 on the clock

That's 1:45, on the time clock.

S.

On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 12:17:38 +0100, "Keith G"
wrote:


"Stewart Pinkerton" wrote in message
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On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 21:20:29 +0100, "Keith G"
wrote:

"Nick Gorham" wrote in message
. ..
Keith G wrote:
r.

**That was the thrust of my argument. MOSFETs have so many
disadvantages,
there seems to be little point in using them. Except for rock bands,
of
course. They are tough little critters.

Jeez, Nick - I never wrote no such thing!

(For the record - I don't really give a FF about SS - if it don't glow,
it
ain't gonna go......!)

Buy a Naim, and you can have both! :-)


Or early MF, I gather........ :-)

Well, certainly the Michelson and Austin amps which preceded MF!
Pyrotechnics were a speciality..............
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Stewart Pinkerton | Music is Art - Audio is Engineering