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Chinese (?) philosophy

To: "John Macartney" <jonmac@ndirect.co.uk>
Subject: Chinese (?) philosophy
From: Dave Massey <105671.471@compuserve.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 16:49:16 -0500
Cc: TR List <triumphs@autox.team.net> charset=ISO-8859-1
Jonmac writes:
>Never having involved myself with Buddha (and with the greatest respect to
those who have)
>I think he must have cut his teeth on a ground up restoration of an MG.
This would have
>equipped him with and taught him something about the inner mysteries of
Lucas, brought
>confucion on the merits of Dot wotsit versus Dot hoojit brake fluid,
embroiled him in the
>trials and errors of mineral vis a vis synthetic engine oil - and all
before he moved on
>to a Triumph with a recalcitrant petrol injection system.
>Perhaps this goes some way to explaining why the Indian built Herald and
the Indian Rover
>SD1 (with a 4 cyl TR engine - sort of) were probably never sold outside
the Indian
>sub-continent.
>
>Jonmac

That and the fact they were set up to burn dried waterbuffalo dung!

Dave

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