'Bonnets' are good aren't they, never thought about it until I heard the
word 'hood' - bonnet maybe from the French, as quite a lot of English is, we
certainly adopted a lot of their early aviation words without batting an
eyelid - aileron, fuselage, empennage, nacelle -lovely words.

Dampers of course is much more correct than shock-absorber, as their true
function is velocity-damping, an engineering term. Shock absorbing is an
incidental side-effect - vague and vernacular to and engineer too.

Clive

----- Original Message -----
From: "Stan Wilder" <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2002 8:38 AM
Subject: Re: Caught offside! - no Vanagon content

> One of the best ones I've seen was a fellow from Australia that said he
> had been gotten by the backdoor witch. Which translates in English to
> *Murphy's Law*.
>
> Stan
>
> On Wed, 17 Jul 2002 21:52:44 -0700 Todd Last <Rubatoguy@MINDSPRING.COM>
> writes:
> > Personally, I like the Brit terms better.
> > It would be much more colorful to have: Sparking plugs, Dynamos,
> > Bonnets, Boots,  Dampers and Cubby boxes over on this side of the
> > pond,
> > just to name a few.
> >
> > For those interested, here is a link to a cross-reference of British
> > and
> > American automotive terms.
> >
> > http://www.team.net/sol/solterms.html
> >
> >
> >
> > Todd
> > '88 Westy
> >
>
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