JohnD

Pete, You should read my posts again. I am worried for the TSSC becasue of the attitude elsewhere, and I raise other sirtes to show how the TSSC could improve. Anyway, how else am I to raise my concerns for the Club? A letter in the Courier? Mike, Thank you again, and for springing to my defence! I will await improvement, not with bated breath as I do need to breath now and again. It would be good to have a time table, rather than distant prospect of change. Admin/Simon "free of charge"? "FREE OF CHARGE"?????? What do I pay my membership fee for? I know you are not paid, but the message board is part of the service to mebers that the Cklub provides, from that income. But once again, I fear that if the Club and CoM think that how it looks is unimportant, they entirely miss the point of the message board. How do you think new members are born? They think of buying a Triumph, look on the 'Net for advice at Triumph messageboards - and imediately get confused by the similarity between TSSC and TRR. Gosh! they might make the mistake of buying a TR! [Joke] The website and more than anything else on it, the message board, is the Club's, any club's, shop window. It displays what the club deals with, how and who the people are who deal with it. Why do you think that our high streets are so similar nowadays? Because they are full of chain stores, from WHSmith to Kentucky Fried Chicken, which promote their brand image by looking the same from John o' Groats to Lands End. Every car manufacturer promotes a brand image, such as BMW with its prominent 'propellor' badge and double nostril radiator grille, a Roller radiator, Citroen's edge-engineering (until recently, anyway). For a car club, competing with other clubs for membership, to look the same as another club is just silly. especially when it is easy to change. John

Work in progress, as you say, ptr (peter?). Please see the "Colour Scheme" thread, and register your opinion? http://forum.tssc.org.uk/index.php?/topic/71-message-board-colour-scheme/ JOhn

And if you have the right version of Windows (I'm still on XP), the "My Pictures" folder has a built-in compressor. I suspect that this facility may sometimes not be loaded, but should be on your Windows disc, if you have one. Don't know if it would still be available from Microsoft, or if it exists in Windosw 7 or 8. But simples! Select a picture (or pictures, it'll do dozens at once) and then click on: File/Resize Pictures/Small (fits 640x480 screen)/OK Voila! The compressed pic will appear in the same folder with the same name, plus "(Small)". What could be simpler? No need to JOhn

Thanks, Mike, especially for your forgiving attitude to my diatribes! I worry for the TSSC - have you noticed opinions eslewhere? The Club does not get a 'good press'; it's seen as a set of losers. Copycatting TRR won't help that. Admin cites "identity confusion" if the colour scheme is changed. Once again, self-satisfaction rules! I'm already confused, and so is Bruce, and in all fairness, the TRR was first! But OK, leave the colour scheme. The website offers layout options as well, and the colours could stay the same, it just looks different. As an example, has the Club not noticed that Sidways also uses this software? Their layout is distinctive and demonstrates those "Infinite posisibilites" that the software supplier boasts about! Please, TSSC, wake up! It was said before, but this message board is the shop window that the rest of the world uses to know about aand to gat an opinion on, the Club. The Club must use it to promote itself, or die. John

"The colour is immaterial" Gosh, Mike, if you are right, then the whole of the design and advertising industry is wrong. Newspapers might as well all use the same layout and format, car makers all make the same model, and the fashion industry can close up shop. I fear that you express the blind and self-satisfied attitude that threatens the TSSC with oblivion. The Club website is distinctive, good! But the messageboard is a copy, an exact copy, of another Triumph board. What organisation that values its individuality would want to appear the same as another, as a competitor! If the Club doesn't care about the message board, then the TSSC management still has the previously shown antagonism towards a club message board, thinks that this essential communication means with its members is trivial, and does not want to be bothered by the opinions of its members that post there. But this member of over thirty years does care, very much. For the last two years there has been no TSSC board post to, but my life in Triumph has continued uninterruptedly, because there are at least four other boards, here and in the US, that are busy and thriving. I only came back to contribute to the new board because it was the TSSC's but if your views, Mike, represent those of the new management, I am wasting my time. TSSC has a much to offer its members, but unless it starts to actually listen to them, those members will give up on the Club. John

The TSSC chose to use the same message board software as the TR Register. No bad thing, as the TRR has used theirs for years and it has been most reliable, but why did the TSSC also choose to use the exact same colour scheme and board layout as the TRR? Others may not have noticed, but one such as I, who spreads themselves, Titan-like, across the Triumph world, will find this most confusing! Did I post on that subject here or on TRR? Where is that thread I want to find again? When both sites look identical, it becomes more difficult to recall. And there is no need for the copy-cat appearance. The board system is the Community Forum Software, by InvisionPower and it has its own website from which I quote: "Fully customizable appearance, including per-forum themingThe IPS Community Suite includes incredibly powerful customization tools, allowing you to brand your community with almost limitless freedom. Match your existing website or develop an exciting new style. IP.Board takes the customization further by allowing you to apply unique themes to individual forums within your community - useful if you have multiple brands that you're bringing together under one roof, or distinct subject areas that would be better served with their own styling." See: http://www.invisionpower.com/apps/board/ Please, TSSC! Revise the colour scheme and layout to another from the "limitless freedom" you have been given, and make the TSSC's message board as distinctive as the Club it represents to the World! JOhn

I have no idea, frogeye. Once removed, it's an easy measurement with a vernier guage. John

Bore size, frogeye, bore size! The reservoir size is irrelevant to the action of either system. John

That's letting the cat out of the garage, Kevin!

Clive, I read that many ex-pats keep their UK cars in UK registration for years in France - as long as six, for a TR3 currnetly on sale in Paris but still in UK registartion, and longer. No personal experience, and the small matter of bringing it back to the UK yearly for an MoT might limit the idea to Northern France and the Low Countries. Anthony, If that's not your Vitesse, do you know anything about those pilotes intrepides? John

"The Last Spitfire" off the line was NOT the Spitfire with the highest VIN, despite anything that Gaydon might say. Cars were returned to production if quality control found fault with them and processed through again, so that a lower numbered car could, and did, often, come off after those with higher numbers. So I'd expect the same of GT6s. John

There's a Vitesse for sale on eBay, decsribed as "For parts", and he's not kidding. Want's £3,000 for it?! http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/triumph-convertible-sportscar-for-spares-or-repair-/221530398319?pt=UK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM&fits=Model%3AVitesse+Cabriolet&hash=item33943d9e6f#ht_25015wt_1190 JOhn

Bonjour, Anthony! Another 2.5 Vitesse fan here! See below. Your modified Herald isn't anything to do with this, is it? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mp23kvqbSl0&feature=related JOhn

One of the first, commercial rust prevention treatments was "Zeibarting", that was a franchised system for moderns. I remember it well, it was a reasonably good system, but nowadays they are rust prooofed in production, and the business has died. A modern car, with its monocoque body shell construction could not have all its voids reahed by some 'long lance'. So Zeibart studied all common models and worked out where to drill holes to spray into the cavities. The holes were then filled with 'Zeibart plugs' whih became an alleged 'Plus-point' if you were looking a used car. I don't suppose you could get Zeibart plugs today, but as suggested above, rubber grommets in all sizes are readily available. Drilling a few holes on your chassis will do it no harm, and think of the resale value! LIke Zeibart used to say! JOhn PS No Zeibart plugs, but Dinitrol plugs, same idea, yes! http://www.rejel.com/rejel-store/categoryid/39/dinplug10bl50.aspx

OK, Kevin! If those points are noted, I'm glad to await developments. You have done a great job to persuade the TSSC that we should have forum at all! JOhn

500kB? That's a pathetic total, only ten pics of 50kB each, which is small. Yes, that's the limit on the TRR site, which uses the same software as this, but surely that limit is settable? It's a real bore, as today I needed to post a 47kB pic, but had no room, again! To get my new pic up, I must delete other pics, that I have posted to help others, which mean they can't be there in the future. In days of yore, when 'bandwidth' (whatever that is) was precious, and storage expensive, such a low limit was acceptable, even necessary, but it ain't so these days. In Another Place (dare I say "Sideways"?) there is NO LIMIT on the number or total size of all your pics. And in a USA Place, the Totally Triumph Net, little used now that Jeff McNeal went to the Dark Side and bought himself a 5 litre Corvette, there was automatic compression of any pic that was uploaded and was above a certain pixel size. Very useful, and it prevented those ENORMOUS pics that only show the front left overrider and you have to scroll about to see any more. JOhn PS Just been to the Gallery, and that says the limit is "Unlimited" - with max picture size, no more than 20MEGAbytes. That is just gigantic! Can we please have some realistic limts? If you go to my gallery - I can't see how to put pics from there into this post - there are two pics, one less than 200kB, the other over 2.5Megabytes. You really, really don't ned the second size ona message board. 640x480 pixels is a fine size and will be about 200kB. J.

How do you post a pic, so that it appears full size in your post? Using the usual system, Attach file/insert in post shows a thumbnail that only shows full size when clicked on. But many posts show fullsized pics. So far, this new MsB hasn't shown any ginormous pics, more than a screen wide, that sued to infest the old one. Does it do an auto compression on such megapics? (The Totally Triumph Net site in the US, now little used does this) If not, can that facility be added? It's an annoyance to have to scroll about to see a pic in full. JOhn

For the record, as the old site has been lost, here are my cars. The first two, Old Blue and Silverback, have gone to the Great Garage in the Sky, and now I have Son of Silverback, or SofS. Currently engineless - blew two last year, and then ruined a block in the build - and there has been a great deal going on in my other life this year, but should be out next at the latest. John PS How do you post a full-sized picture? The above has come out as a thumbnail, only revealed in all its glory when you click on it. J.

What makes you think that "Algernon Stinkthrottle" is the real name, or else "Mike Crewes"? It's so long since I joined TSSC, but I don't think now they do an ID check, let alone consult the Criminal Records Bureau before granting you membership, so even if your 'registered name' was used, it would mena nothing. Reputation is all, and for the disreputable, that's what moderators are for. Yours anonymously, JohnD

Indeed, welcome back, gone too long, far too long. Will the site ever regain it's ... chutzpah? For a start, Pete, start an RLG thread. Would this do? John