Bill,
That was great. I have never owned a British Sports Car but a friend of mine had one and it seemed he had an electrical failure about every 100 miles. He carried about a dozen of some kind of capacitors in the car to replace the ones that went open after the 100 miles. Great engineers the British. Build cars that are great for a while, supply all manuals which as you said can't be understood and then build tons of parts to replace the ones that are designed to fail after a certain time. Never dig to deep into the manual to find out just what the motor may have on it.
Ron