LRO: Re: Kinda Long and Opinionated Leaf/Coil comments bewarned

From: Frank Elson (frankelson@felson.freeserve.co.uk)
Date: Sat Jun 30 2001 - 18:00:00 EDT

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    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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