Amen Mike, my 1960 Series 1 Sunbeam Alpine does not have anything metric on it. It's about half restored and I sure would hate to replace any hardware with metric. KennyB -----Original Message----- From: Mike Fenner [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2009 8:16 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [TN] European Union Council Directive 80/181/EEC (Metric Directive) Ps: please stay Imperial till I get my old car finished. All my nuts, bolts spanners, etc come originally from US suppliers. Regards Mike --------------------------------------------------- Technet Mail List provided as a service by IPC using LISTSERV 15.0 To unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the BODY (NOT the subject field): SIGNOFF Technet To temporarily halt or (re-start) delivery of Technet send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet NOMAIL or (MAIL) To receive ONE mailing per day of all the posts: send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet Digest Search the archives of previous posts at: http://listserv.ipc.org/archives Please visit IPC web site http://www.ipc.org/contentpage.asp?Pageid=4.3.16 for additional information, or contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or 847-615-7100 ext.2815 -----------------------------------------------------