The Americans. What are they like? Not only do they think they invented the custom chopper genre, but they seem to think that they own the English Language and as such can simply add new words whenever seems necessary. Take for example the process to have ideas - what verb would you use to describe this?..... "having ideas"? :-/ Not good enough for the Americans. Some bright spark decided that it needed a word of its own and coined the phrase "IDEATION" Oh Puuurlease!
And then I stumbled over another made up american verb - but this one I liked. I was reading a motor bike magazine and was particularly attracted to an article about a beaten up 1923 Indian Scout - it looked fab, as if it had just been dragged from a barn where it had stood for 60 or 70 years, but I was amazed to read that the bike had been lovingly restored with a sympathetic respect that retains the "dignity of its age" ...... and this process, they called "RUSTORATION" - Brilliant! :-)
And this made me wonder if I could get away with a rustoration of my reliant engine and rear axle? Are caked-on oil and corroded diff cases indicative of the dignity of a 23 year old reliant rialto?
And so this all ties up nicely with a word invention of my own (or was it TVOR's) many years ago when after crashing the car there was nothing other to do than rebuild it with the respect that retains its "dignity" and acknowledgement to the awful damage that rolling the Renault 4 twice into a field creates - and so "RENAULTVATION" was born
(By the way that dent seen in the picture on the front wing/bonnet was not the result of rolling the car - that was a different accident after the renault had been renaultvated - hmmm not very good drivers are we when were 18??)
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