I have read all these ideas about our e-club. Tony sagely commented: "My experience is that the more formal the Club becomes, the less people will want to conform to its rules." It was either Socrates or Shakespeare who said something like 'As the body of rules and regulations grows, the end of society nears' (Tony, did you know you were in such great company?). This club, which as Rex points out, is already a club. It needs one thing and one thing only - a logo to put on patches and badges! Everything else will surely ruin what we have.
What is the deal with all this talk about stripping? I've seen threads about stripping the underbody and the interior. What are you going to do once it is all removed? Why not just leave it alone? It always seemed to me that this stuff helped protect the underside, insulate the inside, and reduce noise. Granted if I was making a race car, I'm sure I'd want less weight. But for the every day sports car, is this stuff really that heavy? Is it a question of trapped rust? I thought that was the beauty of the Sunbeam, that Rootes went the distance to make a better quality car, with better trimmings, and here we are removing them!
>"No, I'm sure you must have been mistaken." the proprietor told me,
>"Sunbeam has always built low-powered economical vehicles for the lower
>end of the market."
Don't you hate comments like that? The guy who has the MGB near me,
allegedly in the business of English sports cars, commented to me in an air
of pompousness that Sunbeam was a small company. What a jerk. First to be
so smug, second to be so wrong.
That's all for now.
Jay