"Chris Kent Kantarjiev" scribed:
Subject: old cars made new again
> and planning to get the dash reveneered ... you get the idea. I was
> going to "fix" all the things that were wrong, places where she'd
> been neglected by time and previous owners.
Go right ahead. FIx it- no problem.
> But now I'm worried that I'm going to destroy the car I love and
> create one of those cars that I scoff at during VTR concours
> So, how do I keep the car I love? I know I'll never find all the
> rattles, and I'll probably never get the tach light to work quite
> right, but how will I be able to look at this car and make the
> connection to the car I fell in love with almost three years ago?
There's just one way. *DRIVE IT*. USE IT. FIX IT. that's all it
takes. New things will break, the paint will fade. She'll still
be your friend, as long as you keep her active.
RG
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