Look at it this way... I sold my original '67 Mk3 in 1979 and spent the
next twenty one years having occasional dreams about finding it again under
a tarp somewhere until this past Fall when something inside me SNAPPED and I
had the sudden and CONSUMING OBSESSION to find that car (or one just like
it) again! Think of all the stress you've saved yourself!!
I think the phenomena I'm experiencing is actually quite common.
Sooner or later, we all want to go back and recapture the inner fun we lost
somewhere along the line of growing up and concentrating on careers and
families.
Best wishes,
Jeff in San Diego
'67 RHD Spitfire Mk3 aka "Mrs. Jones"
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----- Original Message -----
From: Simmons, Reid W <reid.w.simmons@intel.com>
To: Spifires Autox Team <spitfires@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2000 10:09 AM
Subject: RE: Run it Hard!!
>
> Yes, that's why I hung on to my '79 all these years. I contemplated
selling
> it several times over the years but didn't for "sentimental" reasons. I'm
> glad I kept it and am having a lot of fun fixing it up. I don't think the
> total annual US production of Prozac would have been sufficient to deal
with
> the post-sales depression I would [still] be experiencing! :-)
>
> Reid
> '79 Spitfire (original owner)
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff McNeal [mailto:jmcneal@ohms.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2000 9:52 AM
> To: BILL McDEVITT; Spifires Autox Team
> Subject: Re: Run it Hard!!
>
>
> No problem, Bill. You should actually be quite relieved that I hadn't
> already found my car and accepted your offer. You would be suffering
> seller's remorse BIG time by now -- just like the gent I purchased my car
> from. I stayed in touch with him for awhile asking questions and so
forth,
> until he lamented that he was "depressed" seeing how much I'd done with
the
> car, wishing he could have had the time and money to do what I've
> accomplished so far.
>
> I actually felt sort of bad for the guy. He'd owned the car for twenty
> years!
>
> Ciao for now,
>
> Jeff
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: BILL McDEVITT <wmmk1@informatics.net>
> To: Spifires Autox Team <spitfires@autox.team.net>; Jeff McNeal
> <jmcneal@ohms.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2000 5:57 AM
> Subject: Re: Run it Hard!!
>
>
> > Jeff, Mistake??? Very poor choice of words on my part!!
> > I should have used"Opportunity", as you are the only
> > person I've ever offered to sell it to. I fully understand
> > your quest to find one like you owned years back. You
> > probably will go way over budget before you are finished,
> > just like I did!! I sold my 1970 Spit back in 1991 to help
> > me finance the restoration of this MK1. I didn't really have
> > any plans on selling it until I had a gentleman and his
> > wife insist on having it for the sum of $ 7,000.00. I never
> > gave them a price, this was their offer!! So, I could now
> > afford to go all out on the MK1 and do it the way I always
> > wanted to do one!! Anyway, sorry that I implied that you
> > made a mistake. Bill
> >
> >
> > > Bill,
> > >
> > > I don't consider it a mistake not buying your Mk1. I wanted a Mk3 --
> just
> > > like the one I had when I was younger and that's what I got. In fact,
> I'd
> > > already bought it before you mentioned yours to me at all!! I'm happy
> for
> > > your successes, however. Your note here makes me all but certain I
> > couldn't
> > > have afforded your Mk1 anyway.
> > >
> >
> >
>
>
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