Listerati,
Was searching the archives (Thanks Mark) tonight for "tops"...don't ask...and
found this post written five years ago by Nolan Penney. Amazing what tangents
one can go off on in the archives.
I thought it really speaks to a lot of what this list is all
about...especially the parts car postscript. Good job Nolan. Hope you don't
mind me sharing this gem.
"The only thing better than free advice is good free advice."
Bud Rolofson
[Date Prev][Date Next] [Chronological] [Thread] [Top]
Re: Free advice
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
---
a.. To: Charlie Brown <cb1500@erols.com>
b.. Subject: Re: Free advice
c.. From: Nolan Penney <npenney@erols.com>
d.. Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 21:22:58 -0400
e.. CC: triumphs@Autox.Team.Net
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
---
>Over the past months, for better or worse, I've sent suggestions for
>various problems directly to the person with the problem--not wanting
>to clog the main list with information that's been posted time and time
>again.
Dear Charlie,
As a non-expert of Triumphs, I personally dearly love a "cloging" of the
news group with technical type information, as well as stories and such.
I have never learned all there is to learn, and without discussions, I
would not be able to continue learning those things.
I personally joined this group purely to be able to speak with people
about Triumphs. Their idiocincrities, personalityies, foibles and
wonders. Without the help I've gotten from folks here, my wallet would
be much thinner, and my Spitfire would not be running as well as it is.
I didn't join this group to keep secret my Spitfire, and to not talk
with people about it. Especially people that actually know Triumphs.
If I wanted to talk to idiots, I could just go hang out in
rec.autos.tech. <g>
Many of the threads here have nothing to do directly with my current
Spitfire, but I learn from them non the less. Many threads do directly
relate. And I get frustrated when I can see threads go "underground" as
it were, without being able to follow them there. Do I need to know
about installing a convertable top on a TR3, considering I don't have
one? Yes! For many of the problems, difficulties and sollutions are
going to apply directly to my Spitfire when I finally get around to
replacing it's top. What's more, it's *not* old hat to me. Others may
have replaced tops dozens of times, but I've never done it at all. So
reading all those TR3 top clogging messages are no clog to me
whatsoever.
Even when I do find threads and messages I'm not interested in, I'm
perfectly capable of hitting the down arrow button, and skipping over
it.
So *please* Charlie, post your messages publicly, for me, and people
like me to read. My Spitfire's frame isn't bent, or is it? Did you
discuss some of the weak points of that frame and front suspension with
the gent with the camber problem? I'd sure like to know about them
myself, as I currently don't! And if they aren't posted publicly, I
ain't gonna learn about it. Except the hard way when I bend and break
my own frame through ignorance.
I've seen your Spitfire, I *know* your car is no ordinary Spitfire, and
that you're no run of the mill back yard hack. When it comes to
technical discussion, it's people like you that I'm looking for to read.
So please, *please*, PLEASE! Post publicly.
That goes for the rest of you folks too. Including the ones that aren't
techno wizards.
Sincerely,
Nolan Penney
PS, thanks for giving my Charlies phone number. You probably already
know it, but I bought the parts car from him after we pulled the engine.
Still didn't get the parts I was looking for, but I got everything else!
:-)
/// triumphs@autox.team.net mailing list
/// or try http://www.team.net/cgi-bin/majorcool
/// Archives at http://www.team.net/archive
|