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Alexander
Hi Conor,
I don't really want to go on about this rather uninspiring truck forever, but as it is you, let me explain:
When this image of the truck was placed six month ago it came with the name 'Marmon', an obvious mistake and I corrected it to 'Western Star'. That was the very first, by now famous, comment on that page. (Perhaps I better had not bothered!)
Since then we saw people coming and going, quite a few insisted that it is a Kenworth, until they eventually looked at the pictures. I think by now everyone has noticed the defining details, with the exception of the braindead child.
This cab shape started under the 'White Western Star' brand label in 1974. In 1981 'White' was sold to 'Volvo', but without the 'White Western Star' branch. Since then this part is known as 'Western Star' and kept producing the same trucks as before, only the badges changed.
For a number of reasons (please check them out in the thread) it is most likely that we have a 'Western Star'. They did use round headlight at first and changed them to square headlights in the early to mid eighties. (See here: http://www.hankstruckpictures.com/pix/trucks/loeb/2005/feb_cd/file540.jpg )
Therefore this truck is correctly labelled 1981 Western Star.
Now about the spam-child:
It is rather difficult to shut him up. This should be the task of his parents, but sadly a lot of parents don't care. Technically Antoine could erase the user profile, but as we have an open community he could create a new user account again and again. It is a lot easier to simply ignore anything that is written by him. Don't reply or comment anything, don't even read his stuff. It is just spam, and like eMail spam this simply has to be removed -- that's all. If no one cares it will go away after a while. Getting engaged only gets on everybodies nerves. And giving in only once would be a wrong move altogether -- that would spread the virus to other cars, too.
One last piece of advice I may be allowed to give, as I am the elder of the two of us:
A quote says: 'If the wise give in, the stupid will rule the world.'
Important is to know if you are wise or just stubborn.
So, just lay back, relax and don't care about it any longer.
I don't really want to go on about this rather uninspiring truck forever, but as it is you, let me explain:
When this image of the truck was placed six month ago it came with the name 'Marmon', an obvious mistake and I corrected it to 'Western Star'. That was the very first, by now famous, comment on that page. (Perhaps I better had not bothered!)
Since then we saw people coming and going, quite a few insisted that it is a Kenworth, until they eventually looked at the pictures. I think by now everyone has noticed the defining details, with the exception of the braindead child.
This cab shape started under the 'White Western Star' brand label in 1974. In 1981 'White' was sold to 'Volvo', but without the 'White Western Star' branch. Since then this part is known as 'Western Star' and kept producing the same trucks as before, only the badges changed.
For a number of reasons (please check them out in the thread) it is most likely that we have a 'Western Star'. They did use round headlight at first and changed them to square headlights in the early to mid eighties. (See here: http://www.hankstruckpictures.com/pix/trucks/loeb/2005/feb_cd/file540.jpg )
Therefore this truck is correctly labelled 1981 Western Star.
Now about the spam-child:
It is rather difficult to shut him up. This should be the task of his parents, but sadly a lot of parents don't care. Technically Antoine could erase the user profile, but as we have an open community he could create a new user account again and again. It is a lot easier to simply ignore anything that is written by him. Don't reply or comment anything, don't even read his stuff. It is just spam, and like eMail spam this simply has to be removed -- that's all. If no one cares it will go away after a while. Getting engaged only gets on everybodies nerves. And giving in only once would be a wrong move altogether -- that would spread the virus to other cars, too.
One last piece of advice I may be allowed to give, as I am the elder of the two of us:
A quote says: 'If the wise give in, the stupid will rule the world.'
Important is to know if you are wise or just stubborn.
So, just lay back, relax and don't care about it any longer.