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Building a Vincent completely from VOC Spares Co?
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<blockquote data-quote="vibrac" data-source="post: 22557" data-attributes="member: 60"><p>Even though the Vincent components from reputable suppliers are probably to better tolerances than in the fifty's and most parts are now redrawn and parts are no longer copied from 'the last one in the spares bin' One should never forget that we are dealing with a design that always needs some real old fashioned engineering fitting. It never was a 'screw it in place and race' design. </p><p>I am sure nowadays skilled assembly has almost been designed out. Sometime around the 70.s and 80.s was about as good as it got but then computers on vehicles and automated assembly finally sounded the death knell of the fitter,home mechanics and the local garage.</p><p>The lean burn engine would have made catalytic converters and all those injectors and electronic gizmo's unnecessary but then vehicles would have been too reliable-and who ever made money out of a long life car? even VW stoped the beetle</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="vibrac, post: 22557, member: 60"] Even though the Vincent components from reputable suppliers are probably to better tolerances than in the fifty's and most parts are now redrawn and parts are no longer copied from 'the last one in the spares bin' One should never forget that we are dealing with a design that always needs some real old fashioned engineering fitting. It never was a 'screw it in place and race' design. I am sure nowadays skilled assembly has almost been designed out. Sometime around the 70.s and 80.s was about as good as it got but then computers on vehicles and automated assembly finally sounded the death knell of the fitter,home mechanics and the local garage. The lean burn engine would have made catalytic converters and all those injectors and electronic gizmo's unnecessary but then vehicles would have been too reliable-and who ever made money out of a long life car? even VW stoped the beetle [/QUOTE]
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