Re: SER1 60th Anniversary

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Hi Mike,

Not to rain on your parade, but some of those expensive and 'hard-to-get'
parts are those things because they are hard to make or require expensive
tooling the tiny Series I market could never support.  I'd be happy --
positively gleeful -- if I could offer some of those items at a profit.
Just point me at a profitable opportunity and I'm there :-)

George E Sollish	Chief Engineer		Auto Gear Equipment
			Project Manager		The Payne Lake Project

On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, Michael Carradine wrote:

> Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 21:56:21 -0800
> From: Michael Carradine <mc@xxxxxxxxx.xxx>
> Reply-To: series1@xxxxxxxxx.xxx
> To: series1@xxxxxxxxx.xxx
> Subject: Re12: SER1 60th Anniversary
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> At 06:58 AM 12/16/2004, Mark, dreaming in Halifax, wrote:
> >Thinking of Ford, I remember reading in a classic car magazine a few
> >years ago about Volvo making grants available to owners of vintage
> >Volvo's who were prepared to restore them. Now since Volvo are also part
> >of Ford, I wonder if we could get them to make grants available to us
> >Series One owners to help with maintenance and running costs - after
> >all, what better advertisement is there than hundreds of old Land Rovers
> >still running around on the roads. Perhaps Ford could start with grants
> >for Series Ones to coincide with the 60th Anniversary celebrations, and
> >maybe then cover the Series Twos for the 70th and Series Threes next etc
> >.....
> >Or maybe I had too much beer last night and am still dreaming......
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> Rather than grants, why not tool up and produce some of the
> more difficult to get or expensive parts and make them available
> at low cost online direct to registered owners?  What would be
> more supportive of a marque than knowing you can get parts and
> literature?  (Probably some entrepreneurial spirit will have the
> Chinese making parts for us - after all, most things these days
> come from China, India, or Brazil  ;-)
>
> Michael Carradine
> Held captive in California
> by a 1950 80" RHD ex-MoD
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