[Rovernet] Geezers...

[Alan Francis]

Hi Glen, I've been watching from the sidelines but now its geezer time its time to raise my head above the parapet. The 20+ years since I first got a PC with Internet access have flown past and I well remember discovering Rovernet and the many names on here some as you say sadly no longer with us. Like you i feel we all owe a great debt to Eric Russell who's wisdom is much missed. TheUK was devoid of any Rover sites and Ebay UK was still some years away. I have a certain pride that my Ebay account is still all in dollars (Ebay.com) not GB pounds. I know we had some great to and fro conversations and remember them with great pleasure. I have kept the faith and my current fleet consists of 2 x 1964 P6s 1 x 1959 P4 90 and 1 x 1940 P2 12hp for restoration. Good luck with your impending move, I cannot match a new valve but I'll raise you a hip replacement! All the best and if its not to early a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all. Let's hope 2021 is much better than 2020.Alan Francis ( Partviking)Sent from my Galaxy
-------- Original message --------From: Glen R Wilson via Rovernet <rovernet at rovernet.org> Date: 04/12/2020  17:10  (GMT+00:00) To: Rovernet <rovernet at rovernet.org> Cc: Glen R Wilson <gwilson at quakertech.net> Subject: [Rovernet] Geezers... After coming back to the Rovernet after years of absence and still being only a spry 67 despite a pacemaker and a bionic heart valve, I'm imagining that a lot of you guys must be real GEEZERS by now! Hard to imagine Steve Manwell is still up and around because he was pretty frail even back in the day. Just wasn't as tough as Hank!  ;-) One of these days, the Rover Company newspapers I have promised him several times will finally arrive on his doorstep, though maybe they will go to the Dirk Burrowes Nuclear Attack Proof Archive in Fitchburg if he will promise to scan them in a large format scanner and make them available to all. I'm sure he has that capability at his company.Henry Manwell was a wonderful guy. And let's take a moment to Remember Eric Russell who, though I only met him once in person, was perhaps my first true internet friend going way back and teaching me that an email address 3,000 miles away across one border could be a true confidant and source of good times and of personal support.And then there are the rest of you Geezer who are still hanging around from the days when Rovers were priced at $1 per cubic centimeter of displacement and the Canadian dollar was a real bargain._______________________________________________Rovernet mailing listRovernet at rovernet.orghttp://rovernet.org/mailman/listinfo/rovernet_rovernet.org
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