Terry, that's a great idea! I had forgotten about AJs.
Bob, you hit the nail squarely. I find businesses run by enthusiasts are far superior in customer service than those run for profit alone. Maybe they started as enthusiast run, but eventually succumb to capitalism. Right Comrades?
(I can say that, now that Senator McCarthy is dead)
Very frustrating. I see why NOS becomes attractive. Pity those parts are often highly priced. Still, that's supply and demand at play. Sometimes wish I had chosen to restore Jeeps or Land Rovers, though i would imagine WW2 Jeeps parts will creap up over time too, despite remanufacture of a range of bits. All adds to the fun, or the frustration. I'm forever getting those two things mixed up. What starts as one, often ends up being the other!
I drove the grey truck into town yesterday. Went to do a couple ot things for my elderly (89yo) Mother, then went to several businesses afterwards. Was pleased how well the truck went, and am certainly accustomed to the steering, to the point it doesn't bother me now. I still keep both hands on the wheel at all times though, just in case it decided to have a little wander. Not surprising, with the standard of our roads up here. Not quite the Red Ball Highway, but not brilliant either. I'm convinced our tarmac repair crews wait for a one hundred foot stretch of pot holes to join together, before they apply a shovel full of entirely unproductive cold mixed black gravel they refer to as bitumen. As we would fully expect, it does remain in the hole for a period of not longer than 20 minutes (or one dual trailer semi, whichever comes first). Of course, by the time the material gets squished out of the shallow grave it was put in, the repair crew have moved on to the next ineffective abortion of a repair. Makes interesting driving, that's a certainty, and you're never bored driving the roads of Queensland. Very hard to be bored when you have so much to concentrate on! Unfortunately, such concentration is not conducive to scanning the fields and farms for rotting CMP carrion.