19-11-2017, 09:46 AM
Speaking as someone who has driven Austin Sevens most of my life, and as a professional automotive engineer of 30 years' standing, half of what I read on internet forums (not only talking about A7F) is utter bollocks. It is the nature of the medium that you have to sift through the replies & make your choice. It's just as often the guys who can quote textbooks who spout rubbish as the 'newbies'. I am by no means exempt myself - wouldn't be the first time I'd tried to help with an opinion & thought better of it later. Any given technical problem has a host of potential solutions, depending on the needs of the user and other factors; and the beauty of the A7 is they tend to keep on going in spite of what owners do to them as much as because of it. Differences of opinion are inevitable - I still have a letter my Dad received from a former editor of the 'grey mag' back in the day, who was earnestly trying to damp down a row involving someone whose name is nowadays revered, who was well known not to 'suffer fools gladly'. Of one thing I am quite certain - if we start shouting members down and rubbishing their opinions then we will all end up the poorer for it. Manners, please.