Newsletter 35 - October 2003

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Dave, As I have recently become the proud owner of a Minari I am very interested in joining the register-owners club. I have actaully purchased the vehicle off my brother Andy Jackman and I believe he was a member, so you should have the vehicle details, though I don't believe he will have told you that he was running it on 3 cylinders! I look forward to receiving details from you and meeting other members and cars in the future, and i'll share the rest of the 3 cylinder saga with you. Kev Jackman Kev Welcome to the delights of Minari ownership. I hope you have a long and enjoyable ownership. You are lucky as you have ready access to the cars builder. He might be willing to help you with anything he has done and you need to get at. I have attached an application form for you. You will see that the membership isn't a bank busting amount. I'm afraid you have missed out on 2 events 1) Stoneleigh. 2) the BBQ at my home yesterday. If only we knew! However there’s a number of other gatherings where there will/should/ might be a Minari presence. I look forward to the details of the only 3 cylinder Minari. It isn't a diesel is it, Alfa did produce a 3 cylinder turbo diesel for the 33. Dave Kev Welcome to Minari Register membership. I have received your application form and cheque. Before I process it I have one question for you. When a member joins during the membership year, I will send the back issues of the newsletter and treat them as if having joined at the beginning of the membership year (February). If someone joins in September I will treat them differently. I will send the next NewsLetter and show them as being paid up to the following February, (a period of about 15 months) What would you prefer, Membership to run out at the end of this year and receive the back issues of this years NLs, or at the end of 2004, and start receiving your NLs at the end of September/beginning of November Dave Dave, Thanks for your reply. I am quite happy to go with the immediate membership to receive this years previous newsletters. I've done nearly 300 miles in the car now. I have started the installation of the hardtop in the last week. Is there a 'Guru' who Page 2
could give me any advice for this task I've got some of my own ideas, they may have been tried, tested and rejected already of course! The manual seems to dry up just after the 'A' post seal instructions. I am considering using a removableinterchangeable A post seal. With the hardtop installed the window seal would carry on to the bottom of the A post and hardtop off the Minari A post style seal would be clipped on. I was reading an old back issue of the newsletter that my brother sent me regarding demist air, I remember spending some time when helping to build the car with him on shoehorning the original alfa 33 heater assembly in. It hasn't seen full on bad weather with the hardtop on yet but the airflow through the original alfa diffuser/screen vent seems very substantial on full blast. Perhaps i'll have to be careful how well I seal the hardtop or i'll have a pressurised cabin! As promised photo's of goings on related to 3 cylinder Minari! Regards, Kev. Kev Thanks for the reply, Unfortunately my spam killer killed your message saying it contained a 4 letter word beginning with "f"and ending in"k". But I'm blowed if I can find it. I will post the NL's etc today. Thanks for the photos. Unfortunately I cant copy them to the NL. I can't even save them to then copy them. I don't know why. Dave Sorry forgot to answer your question. I don't have any experience of fitting the hard top, but I believe it is much easier if the hard top is fitted first and then the change made to soft top later. I think your car had a soft top fitted I have passed your e-mail on to one of our Guru's, John Anthistle. He may be able to help. John, Kev has bought his brother, Andy's car, and has just joined us. Can you help please Dave NB Kev resent the pictures. I’ve tried to indicate the ‘track’ lines. DAS Page 3
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