LRO: Re: Real Rovers

From: Faure, Marin (Marin.Faure@PSS.Boeing.com)
Date: Thu Apr 05 2001 - 16:57:50 EDT

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    From: TeriAnn Wakeman <twakeman@cruzers.com>
    Subject: Re: LRO: Real Rovers (was Parts availability....)

    Marin wrote:
    > >using a Land Rover as a starting point. Kind of like the
    > show everyone on this list seems to like so much, Junkyard
    >Wars.

    >Almost but not quite. I spent almost two years designing how I wanted
    the rear interior to be and where to put things before I took wrench to
    the car. I spent almost a year looking at power plants and asking people
    about their experiences and running cost vs fuel savings numbers before
    settling on an engine.

    Don't get the impression I was trying to compare your vehicle to the things
    created on Junkyard Wars. You are correct, that is a two-day,
    throw-together-what-you-can affair, not a thought-out design process like the
    one you went through. I was simply using the Junkyard Wars show as an
    illustration of my point that even though a vehicle may use components from
    a specific machine, the alterations, other parts, etc. that make up the final
    vehicle make it totally different from the vehicle it was derived from. As such,
    it cannot be claimed to be an example of the original vehicle.

    In other words, if I wanted to show someone (say a kid, God forbid) an example
    of a Land Rover, I would not use your vehicle for this purpose. I would find someone
    with a stock (as far as body, drive train and engine go) vehicle. If I wanted to show
    someone an example of a reliable, good-performing on and off-road vehicle, I might
    very well use your 109 hybrid as an example.
    ___________________________
    C. Marin Faure
      (original owner)
      1973 Land Rover Series III-88
      1991 Range Rover Vogue SE
      Seattle



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