Lee,
Thank you for joining the conversation, and I agree with everything you wrote.
After nearly 20 years in the community I too remain glad we have the vendors we have for a relatively uncommon car. I am especially glad that Steve has managed to reproduce and/or locate an amazingly vast collection of parts for our cars.
But in those 20 years I have personally experienced numerous vendor shortcomings, and have heard many more stories of vendor shortcomings from my fellow owners.
But there is, for whatever reason, an unspoken community trait/habit/requirement of blanket owner complacency with these vendor shortcomings.
With my recent throttle cable purchase, I have personally reached my limit of complacency.
I have no problems with modified cars, usually 😉, but I draw the line at requiring an owner to modify their car to allow the fitment of a “reproduction” part supplied by a marque-specific vendor who presents their offerings as “factory replacements “
As you stated, this cable is an easily fabricated piece. Which makes it all the more confusing and ...unjustified... for a vendor to provide a cable that Does Not Work.
Larry