Originally Posted by Luddite
Originally Posted by +8Rich
Well I thought this was the space for BOF's once I saw gomog on here posting George.

My late Father was a brilliant pilot his Log Books tell me, but at everything else he made a complete mess of his life - so once again we have opposing views as the only thing I ever listened and learnt from him was flying.

Sorry Richard, the mention of gomog flew over my head, ( no pun intended) though happy to type that Lorne and I are of a similar age, and that I counted myself fortunate to have enjoyed his friendship and company in times past..

My mention of the father and son was no more than a generalisation and in no way related to my own father who was a far better man than I could ever be...

Opposing views are not an issue for me, they hopefully add to my wider education, though I well understand that those who might expect others to believe in that which they themselves believe in, and to the same degree as they do, may by their nature may make their point a tad more forcefully, perhaps dependant on their frame of mind while typing.... Shrug.

BTW, I learned the "shrug" from conversing with Lorne on the MSCC DG in the mid 90`s, seems he was well ahead of the game before it became obvious that it was all to simple for poor punctuation skills to entirely alter the perceived intended meaning of words initially typed, long before it seems the much needed smiley faces and their likes exploded onto the scene...(-:
In serch of a measure of synergy, at least you, Lorne and I favour the same old Rover V8 powering our Morgans... (-:

As always, each to their own works well enough for me....

You get me totally wrong as a practising old fart - I have no wish for anyone to concur with my ideology or agree with me that is exactly what I rail against I look for people that challenge my ideas and the accepted norms and thus show spirit and display individual thoughts and strengths.

As you say we all have a different stand point and perspective in life shaped partly by our upbringing and open exhausts and powerful engines of aircraft featured highly so it is no wonder that I gravitated to a Morgan Plus 8. The same power to weight, smells and joy of handling are shared values and once I was aware of them in 1971 I knew I had to have one, so bought one unseen or driven from Helen Thorne, trained up from Devon paid cash for it and drove it back home to it's glorious soundtrack and the rest is history.

Coincidently I met the woman who was to become my wife the same year as my Plus 8 yearning some 55 years ago now when she was 16 and both are whole of life wonders for me with nothing else even getting close to deflecting me tbh - some glittery things appear now and again but slight distractions only it seems as with both they are totally honest and frank and not lost to the world of unnecessary electronic gadgetry of the newer generation of cars and womanhood ....


2009 4/4 Sport Henrietta
1999 Indigo Blue +8
2009 4/4 Sport Green prev
1993 Con Green +8 prev