Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 10:50:07 -0500
From: "Jean-Leon Morin" <offroaddesign@softhome.net>
Subject: LRO: Re: RE: Parts availability vs. bulletproofing
>Never replaced half shafts? This is the type of thing I was talking about.
If the maintenance and repair done to your Land-Rover is simply what you stated, hey, I'd keep
it stock too.
Never broken a halfshaft in twenty-eight years. (Now watch, one will break
as I drive home today.)
>The faith you have in engineers is absolutely alien to me. ...Corporate
engineering has always, and will always be, the enemy of durable design.
I will pass your comments on to Boeing's engineering and design management.
I had no idea our airplanes were so undurable....
>Not defending my creation one bit. Merely trying to understand why you place
so much value on something being a "Land-Rover", or a Land-Rover.
All I'm saying is don't totally modify a Land Rover with a new engine,
new drivetrain, new other major components, and think it's still a
Land Rover. It isn't. It's something you built using a Land Rover
as a starting point. But it's no longer a Land Rover in terms of
value, character, authenticity, etc. It may be a great vehicle
for your own uses, but to someone genuinely interested in true
Land Rovers, it ain't one. It's just something you put together
that happens to have a Land Rover body and badge. But it's not
a Land Rover any more than a NASCAR Pontiac is a
real Pontiac.
Did Land Rover make your vehicle as it sits in your garage
today? Yes or no. It's a very simple issue.
Technically, my own SIII is not a Land Rover because I
put my own instrument panel in it. But it's a hell of a lot
more of a Land Rover than one that's had the engine, drivetrain,
etc. changed.
___________________________
C. Marin Faure
(original owner)
1973 Land Rover Series III-88
1991 Range Rover Vogue SE
Seattle
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