Graham;
First and Foremost, let me welcome and congratulate you! Welcome to the ranks
of the Obsessive/Compulsive, and Congratulations on your new Family Member.
Remember, it's not so much an automobile, as it is a fun-loving prankster of an
Inlaw. You don't repair an lbc, you make offerings to it.
AND ABOVE ALL, DO NOT FALL PREY TO THE MOST COMMON MISTAKE OF PREVIOUS OWNERS!
That is, you spend lots of your time and $ making offerings to the car, and
just about the time you've satisfied all but the last one or two demands, you
get frustrated and tired, and sell it to somebody else, who makes the last few
offerings and gets to _really_ enjoy the fruits of your labors. Thus, you are
now at the beginning of a be-yoo-ti-ful relationship, whereby you must remember
that _everything_ is a sunk cost, and cannot be recovered, except in the form
of the enjoyment you get from the honor of having an lbc in your family.
>...an old bicycle and a lawn mower in trade and i was the very proud owner of
a 1973 Midget!!
That must have been one heck of a lawn mower!
Happy Offerings,
James "I've got an old lawn mower, too" B.
'71 MGB
'71 LeSabre
PS. Go out right now and rent the movie "Flight of the Phoenix", with Jimmy
Stewart, Ernest Borgnine. The worlds best line is when Jimmy is reminiscing
about flight during the days of wood, wire, and canvas, and expresses the
ultimate sentiment:
"Y-Ya know, there was a time when you were happy just to *get* there!"
Amen, Jimmy.
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