I agree with a lot of what you say Peter.
The problem, as I see it, is that you guys never had the early coilers,
Range Rover/110/Ninety, which means that you don't have enough second hand
and cheap enough for enthusiasts to move to coils.
I'm on this list because it contains real Land Rovering enthusiasts, just
like me,
However, I drive a coil sprung Land Rover, so I don't belong on this list,
is what I am being told...
but I sure as hell don't belong on the coiler list with their bleating
about ABS CD players and stuff...
Neither do I belong, here in the UK with the 'new' owners (up to (say)
five years), just like those guys in your parking lots, we have them, as
well.
But we also have a lot of people with old, worn and faded and held together
with baling wire, coil sprung Land Rovers
There is some elitism on this list (and the great thing about saying that is
that the ONLY people to read it and be annoyed are the ones who are the
elitists - the others won't be, because they aren't!)
Let's face it, you can't get old of
early 110s and Ninetys like we can in the UK, otherwise half of you would
have them. Hell, from the signatures a lot of you have something with coils
on anyway... from bits and pieces I have picked up over the years it seems
there was a
big bust up on the list and it was split up into 'leafers' and 'coilers'.
Now you can try to fool yourselves as much as you like but that split was
not over suspension systems although that provided a nice little excuse.
It was over the completely different attitudes between owners of 'new'
vehicles and owners of 'old' ones, between poseurs and enthusiasts, between
cruisers and off-roaders... but not about suspension systems.
Best Cheers
Frank
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