<VV> Re: VV young members / electric fans

[mhicks130 at cox.net]

So you guys know this young couple, I must have missed something.  I didn't realize there was a history.  

I remember the "controversy" from last year but I don't remember everyone "poo-pooing" their idea.  I remember discussions of why it should and shouldn't work and people wanting data.  And I do remember Bob putting up money to purchase a kit for someone to install in their car with instrumentation so we can get the data ourselves since the vendor didn't have any.   I can't see wanting data to support their claims as being anything but a good idea.   And if they're put off by that then my "scam alert" warning goes off.  I'm not saying it IS a scam, just that their not wanting to provide data and not supporting us getting data on our own as, at best, unprofessional.  

I don't know what was said to them outside VV but if it was anything like what I read here and that's all it took to chase them away from Corvairs (not just VV), then I think they have bigger issues than a bunch of skeptical old car nuts.  And youth has got nothing to do with it.  The electric fan idea has been around for a long time so the resistance isn't coming just from old people's distrust of anything new, there's a history of false/failed claims on this issue.  Just because the latest proponent of this idea is young and enthusiastic doesn't change that history.  Data could have but apperantly they're not interested in that.

mike



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> I can see why Tom and Trishia have had it with this group.  A guy and his 
> wife come in with a ton of enthusiasm and an idea that seems to work and many 
> (with the exception of Bob and Ken) have repeated ad naseum "That will never 
> work".  This treatment would discourage almost anyone.  Many of the great advances 
> were poo-pooed by experts who said that they would never work. (Self starter, 
> car radio come to mind).  I'm not saying this is a solid gold idea but at the 
> same time I have never made any pronouncements one way or the other. I've 
> seen the car and I've seen it work - that reality is hard to deny. At the same 
> time, there's nothing wrong with an independant test and I support that 
> open-minded approach. - In the meantime the endless stream of "it'll never works" and 
> a degrading of the dialog has ground everybody down and spit the pair of 
> enthusiasts out.  Gee, that was productive.
> 
> Craig Nicol
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