In a message dated 7/04/98 6:57:08 PM PST, bkrueger@ici.net writes:
<< I have to agree with the theory that you are espousing. The world of
MGA's is shrinking. Please, don't butcher any more of them. There are enough
to go
around that already have been converted to V8's. You Shelby-wannabe's can
easily
find them and take them to their ultimate.
When I found my 52TD it had been converted to a Volvo B16B. I switched
it
back to an XPAG. If I wanted a Volvo-drivetrain TD I could find at least
three
within a week. >>
Geez - I just stated my own opinion about butchering cars, whether in a long
tradition of butchering or not - I didn't say anyone else had to agree with
me, did I? Why do several of you act as though I had personally and
intentionally gored your particular sacred oxen? Isn't the net a place where
you can state an opinion without trying to conform to what you think everyone
else wants you to believe?
If you don't agree with my opinion, by all means say so, and say why, and then
we both have a chance of learning something. When people resort to personal
slurs, it just makes me think that they don't have any logic to back their
opinions with.
I happen to agree with Bud, and the T series is probably an even better
example than an MGA, as they are older and scarcer - why chop one up when
there are so many other cars, like the ubiquitous MGB, to do swaps with, if
you really think it is such a great idea.
I knew a chap that had a Chev engined 300 SL Gullwing. I suppose you would all
say that that was a great idea as well? Didn't think so. So we agree then that
lines should be drawn somewhere, don't we? It's just a case of where you
personally want to draw it.
I have known many people who don't give a damn about what sort of cars they
are busy butchering, and whether there are only a handful left or not. Indeed,
given that they own the particular auto in question, they do have every right
to chop em into little bits if they want to. But I have every right to offer
an opinion of such behaviour, just as anyone has a right to ignore my opinion,
or attempt to refute it's logic.
What there is no excuse for, IMHO, is to inject a note of animosity into the
discussion, and to intimate that I have somehow indicated that anyone else
needs my approval for holding an idea (something that I never said), and then
to damn me for what you have inappropriately read into my post.
Bill S.
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