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......

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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