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- From: thos@suite.sw.oz.au (Thomas Cohen)
- Subject: Re: '57 TR3 no engine go jap?
- Organization: Softway Pty Ltd
- Date: 27 Aug 92 22:24:35 GMT
- Message-ID: <thos.714954275@suite.sw.oz.au>
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- In <7045.88.uupcb@chaos.lrk.ar.us> dave.williams@chaos.lrk.ar.us (Dave Williams) writes:
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- >-> I'll say it again. IMHO, if you can't put up with what you percieve
- >-> to be deficiencies of a vehicle's ORIGINAL equipment, perhaps that
- >-> vehicle is something you would be better off admiring from afar,
- >-> rather than something you should cobble up for your own selfish
- >-> purposes.
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- > Selfish purposes, eh? I've never heard it put quite that way before.
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- > There are very few automobiles that couldn't use a boost in the
- >handling or horsepower department. Just because the factory did it one
- >way, doesn't mean it can't be improved.
-
- This presumes that more is always better, which isn't really so.
- Usually, part of the charm of an older car is its behaviour on the
- road. This sometimes makes it impractical for use as an everyday
- car (although my everyday car is 30 yrs old) but you can't change
- what it is.
-
- As I have read several places, in the end we are just custodians of
- the cars we run. If they are historically significant, it is not really
- for us to decide to put a big-block chevy in place of the Bugatti engine
- the car came with. I have demurred several times from modifying some
- of my cars because that would have made them non-original.
- Obvioiusly your mileage may differ.
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- thos
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