[Dragncar]

Originally Posted by Sirrotica

If you ever worked on a car (Jaguar, Triumph cars, and motorcycles, Austin Healy's, MG's, eic.) or a piece of on site construction equipment, mostly manufactured in the UK, (sometimes also made in Canada too) with a Lucas electrical system on it, and saw the bizzare way that they run current to make a simple DC electrical circuit amazingly complicated, it would be crystal clear what the purpose of bottled Lucas circuit smoke was about in the joke. Lucas engineers seem to be able to make the path of electrons, long and tortorious, with a lot of excess wiring, and are also able to make them tough to troubleshoot, as well as unreliable.

Without having dealt with a Lucas system at some point, you'd have no idea of what the joke was about.

There is another commonly told Lucas joke that has been around for decades. It goes like this, Why do the British drink warm beer? Because they have Lucas refrigerators.............

Not those cars but I have done plenty of work on a Austin Marina back in High School.
Never, never NEVER and British cars for me after that experience.