<VV> Quite a shock (humor?)

[Tony Underwood]

At 01:13 AM 4/24/2010, Sethracer at aol.com wrote:
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>
>Without  listing a number of them, what are "shocks"?
> >If I use that term -  shocks - which category of "car enthusiasts" am I
>placed  into?
>
>
>Well - That would make you an "American/Canadian car enthusiast". The  rest
>of the English speaking world calls them dampeners or dampers. Because that
>  is what they do - the spring "absorbs" the compression and stores it, for
>a  moment. The spring rebounds, and the cycle begins. The "shock" actually
>dampens  the cyclic motion of the spring. Anyway, that's why they are
>properly called  dampers. Of course, if you don't want to be 
>considered a dork
>(here in the  US), you call them shocks. Fer Shur,dude!





A rose by any other name would still leak hydraulic oil.




tony..