Or you could show the "Kid" Terriann's Landrover and explain what has been done to it.
I was at a British Classic Car show a year or so ago and the most stunning MGB GT drove
in. The engine purred and the paint glistened as if it were wet. It had a comfortable
new interior in it and a lot of money had been spent on it. Once it stopped in it's place
on the grass under the sun and the owner got out, a small crowd gathered with me amongst
them to behold this thing of beauty. The owner proudly popped open the hood and there lay
a Toyota V6 perfectly installed. As he turned to expound upon it, there was no-one there,
only the distant cry of a hawk and a tumbleweed... you get the picture!! I was amazed at
the reaction, but the others were purists who had painstakingly restored their cars back
to their original timelessness. The GT was a very practical daily driver that could get
out there and wrestle with the best of them on the freeway. Each to their own I say. It
will be interesting to see what happens when I turn up to a show with mud all over my 67
SWB and a Chevy V8 that has been reluctantly shoehorned under the hood. Rumbling like an
AC Cobra because it only has two cherry bombs and no muffler!!!!!
"Faure, Marin" wrote:
> Date: Thu, 5 Apr 01 08:58:04 -0700
> 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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