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10th June 2022, 04:55 PM
Just copying this post here from the Mods section that many don't look at.
Sad news indeed. DL
Memorial for Beeutey
Hello,
Just wondering if there is any official memorial thread for Jilden Reichardt? I had a search around and couldn't find one. Perhaps if there is one already, this post could be re-homed there.
Lovely, knowledgeable and talented fellow who kindly shared allot of his time here. He deserves to have a few hundred pages of people saying nice things about him.
Watching him work was like nothing else. A cross between a musician with total mastery of their instrument and Scrapheap Challenge. The first time we met he diagnosed and fixed the ignition in our V8 County in a matter of minutes using parts he has just sitting under his house and barely charged us anything. He also converted the County to EFI with great economy and skill, tidying up and modernising the LPG while he was at it. He came to us to fix a brake line and ended up sorting out a steering wobble that other mechanics had dismissed for years as "just an old car thing".
Everyone we sent to him came back with a blank expression of shock. Who'd have thought a red motor could start so easily on gas in an Adelaide-hills winter? What do you mean a 35 year old petrol V8 can be daily-driven without incident and surprising fuel economy? How did such a good repair cost so little?
Truely a born engineer and problem solver. I wish we'd met him decades earlier. He will be missed.
Peter Charlton.
Sad news indeed. DL
Memorial for Beeutey
Hello,
Just wondering if there is any official memorial thread for Jilden Reichardt? I had a search around and couldn't find one. Perhaps if there is one already, this post could be re-homed there.
Lovely, knowledgeable and talented fellow who kindly shared allot of his time here. He deserves to have a few hundred pages of people saying nice things about him.
Watching him work was like nothing else. A cross between a musician with total mastery of their instrument and Scrapheap Challenge. The first time we met he diagnosed and fixed the ignition in our V8 County in a matter of minutes using parts he has just sitting under his house and barely charged us anything. He also converted the County to EFI with great economy and skill, tidying up and modernising the LPG while he was at it. He came to us to fix a brake line and ended up sorting out a steering wobble that other mechanics had dismissed for years as "just an old car thing".
Everyone we sent to him came back with a blank expression of shock. Who'd have thought a red motor could start so easily on gas in an Adelaide-hills winter? What do you mean a 35 year old petrol V8 can be daily-driven without incident and surprising fuel economy? How did such a good repair cost so little?
Truely a born engineer and problem solver. I wish we'd met him decades earlier. He will be missed.
Peter Charlton.