<VV> Re: blow up about questions about electric fans

[Larry Forman]

Hi Trisha,
I can understand how Tom felt.  I have been following this on VV and 
FastVairs and at least one comment in particular made ME mad!  I was pissed 
that someone would make such a lame and crass comment for someone in the 
Vair community who is working hard to do good work.  And the comment was 
not even directed at me.  I let it pass for then, but wanted to say that I 
like Tom's work and he is learning some hard lessons about selling to 
Corvair owners.  If you and he talk with Ray Sedman for a little while he 
can tell you how LONG it takes to develop customers for Corvair specialty 
products.  Ray has said it is a SLOW process involving a lot of hours and 
talking over a long period of time.  And this is for someone who has had a 
long reputation for putting out unique, quality Corvair products.  In fact, 
I was there in Portland and someone was asking the hard questions about his 
Safeguard and pricing.  So Ray graciously turned the conversation over to 
me since I have my own positive exposure to that excellent product.  I was 
more than willing to provide an opinion based on real-life exposure over 
several years.

So selling some of those fan kits at the CORSA National was really doing 
pretty well, believe it or not.  Furthermore, I was pretty impressed with 
Tom's work and so were some others.  It just takes time and unfortunately a 
thick skin for uncalled-for comments.  All this should continue to die down 
with time and exposure.

The silver lining is that this thread related to Tom's work has generated a 
TON of good questions and people talking about Tom's work, so you do have 
that to be thankful for.  I realize not all are positive, but most people 
would really like for Tom to succeed, even though they might not say it out 
loud.

The best thing for Tom is to continue to do good work and DRIVE and show 
his car/s and their performance.  As everyone learns the benefits, as well 
as any deficiencies, things should improve and the negativity will SLOWLY 
die off.  Fortunately, people in addition to Tom will come up with creative 
alternatives to overcoming those deficiencies with the passage of 
time.  Just watch and see.

So please hang in there for the long haul.  After this is over, the ride 
should be worth the effort, just like Corvairs.

Larry