Sounds familiar,
I bought my 69 Midget about 5 years ago. I drove it home and parked it to
work on it. 3 years later I finally put an engine in it, a year later the
5 speed, and I just had a new diff put into it yesterday. It still needs
suspension work, and paint...I just keep plugging, even when I had to let
it sit for a few years.
CTP
At 6:31 AM -0800 1/6/98, jphender@soli.inav.net wrote:
>Hey Adrian,
>
>I have on my desk, a picture of my '69 Sprite taken by my mother on the
>day I began to disassemble it. It shows my Dad pointing and laughing at
>me. The picture is dated December 6, 1987. That was the last time ran
>until last Saturday, January 3rd, 1998.
>
>Over that 10 years I worked on it for a total of about 12 months, eight of
>them in 1997. (Got a big shot of enthusiasm after reading "Frank's tech
>tips" on Les Meyer's site - thanks guys!) It isn't finished yet but I
>almost dread the day that it is because I have really enjoyed working on
>it.
>
>I know how you feel. In my darkest days, I even considered selling as a
>basket case. How humiliating that would have been. Even now there are
>some weeks that I can't go out and work on it (two kids and a job-hunting
>wife) and that gets me down.
>
>I personally don't think you are harming anything by allowing it to sit
>idle. I thought my machine was deteriorating sitting in the garage but
>strangely enough, things are cleaning up well.
>
>Jim Henderson
>
>'69 Sprite MKIV HAN9U78817G
>
>On Tue, 6 Jan 1998, J. Adrian Barnes wrote:
>
>> looking over the mess this weekend and it was very discouraging.
>> *sigh* I started this thing almost a year ago now, and can't make
>> headway at all.
>>
>> adrian
>>
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