On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, Skip Montanaro wrote:
> Todd> I'm told that the tan furflex was last used on early '80s range
> Todd> rovers...so, if it's not too much trouble...everyone call their
> Todd> local range rover dealer & see if they have any old stock...please
> Todd> please please.
>
> I don't want to dash your hopes, however...
>
> I dropped by the body shop today where our severely crunched VW New Beetle
> is getting repaired.
Sorry to hear that your car is crunched...
> Next to it was a dusty, late model Land Rover. It was
> finished in every respect except for the new airbags. He said it had been
> sitting there for two months waiting for that one part. He said something
> like, "Why do they think they can sell cars in this country without spare
> parts?"
This reminds me so much of what it was like 30 years ago with our TR6's.
You can't believe how often this used to happen. We had to wait 9 months
for a bumper for the TR6 in '75. Thankfully, in that case the new bumper
was being ordered because the chrome was peeling (as opposed to acciedent
damage). But 9 _months_?
Take notice: this is why I always have to chime in on these lists to this
topic. Sure we get stuff backordered and yes, fairly rare parts are just
that - RARE. But no matter what, the situation right now is still waaaaay
better than it was back then (regarding spares). Waaaay better.
But this sort of reminds me of a commercial from the 70's (I think it was
Midas Muffler of all things) where they show the sporty looking "guy"
dropping off his Italian car and the guy behind the counter (in thick
fake-Italian accent) saying something like "We have-a no parts, four-a
months and you gotta leave-a the car!". This was so true...
Oh well.
> Skip
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