Get Fuzzy by Darby Conley for May 24, 2012

Classic! I don’t know how many people get the Triumph referance, but I did. Didn’t realize the TR7 had the same issues the Spitfire and the TR6 had. Guess it was a signature trademark? Own one of those, did ya, Darby?

i owned a TR7. it ended in court when a wheel fell off. i won that part but i still took a hit when i got rid of it.

Now I’m really glad I got a Vette instead of that Triumph. Even though they’d have both been sold off by now.

I concur … to ALL of the above. And I never personally owned one; just helped a friend get his electrical system to function once in a while…until that dog lifted his leg, again.Never had much respect for British workmanship since.But wait, what was it that powered the P-51? A Rolls-Royce?Well, shut MY mouth!

Ah yes, the TR series. Classic good looks, but nothing worked. MG—same problems.

Sometimes a Great Notion was a novel idea….

I have a British friend who always carried an electrical kit in the “boot”, and said that the first breakdown was a rite of passage for new members of his auto club.

Lucas,the lord of darkness

I generally had enough spares in the boot of my MGB and Spitfire to build another car it seemed. If it wasn’t the electrical system it was the fuel system.

Just about any vehicle built in GB before 1970 (and many later). Minis, sports cars, motorcycles, etc., it didn’t matter. Lucas designed the water-cooled taillight. I could never understand how a country so rainy could have vehicles that leaked and stopped running when it rained.

The comments are hilarious today.

This was, in my opinion, the funniest strip they have done. I love the reference to the pre-paid envelops.

This reminds me of the 5 stars from 5 critics of a cat magazine Bucky sent a story to….the thing is…they each gave him 1 star. bucky sure likes to take things out of context

I loved my TR7 — except, of course, when parts went bad and things failed every week. Punchline: I got rid of it and got … a Mustang II. Oh boy…

Lucas electrics coupled with Smiths instruments and gutta-percha wire in Canadian winters… brings back some not so fond memories… although the banes of both my Vauxhall and Hillman were the hydraulic clutches that had to be pumped up at every red light…

BTW, RR built thousands of trouble free Merlins, and many other “raptor” engines as well, before licensing their manufacture to Packard.

Crazy Cat, nor Krazy Kat?

Yes, most Merlins were made by Packard, who actually did a better job of building them than RR did. But Packard didn’t have to factor the Luftwaffe into quality control.

My first and only standard drive lesson was in a TR6. I was the sober one. I consider the lesson a success. Got the car started and didn’t stall it on the railroad tracks. .This is interesting. Bucky is published! No wonder he thinks he can write.

Classics of Western Literature.

I never had any problems with my MGB! Well, except the time the headlight switch caught fire…

Lucas, God of Darkness, well know to English Bikers, too.

Love Rob’s comment in panel two.

I fixed most of my TR6 electrical issues by cutting the fusebox out and splicing in waterproof inline fuse holders. The ring gear pulling away from the fly wheel meant that I had to park where I could put the top down, push the car to get it rolling, jump in and pop the clutch. My factory manual’s instructions for synchronizing the dual carbs was to tweak one until the car ran smoothly as possible, then use a straw to listen to their intakes and adjust the second one until they were equally loud. Once that was done, adjust the linkage to set the rpm where it should be. Adjust the distributor advance by going to a hill and tweaking the advance until just before you could hear knocking when driving up the hill under full throttle.

the British and the Italians have had a competition for over 60years to see who could make the most unreliable vehicles – they’re still the winners! (with Jeep joining in now-a-days)…..