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Oh, I forgot to include a couple additional pics from some work I did last month. As you know from following the thread, the ABS unit was toast (literally) and it severely mangled all the brake lines. While everything worked without issue and the inner fender liner would have covered them, they were a complete mess. I wanted to get those replaced while I could still remove the fender with relative ease so I ordered the entire spiderweb of lines as a preassembled unit from Jaguar and got those installed and the system bled out.
Well, hopefully the missus is understanding about the mistress.
I didn't tell mine I was buying one and a week later it took the comment that "If you don't want to talk to me I'll go talk to my mistress" to bring her around. Been with her 21 years now so she should be used to it. Hopefully you'll have similar luck.
I am quite fortunate to have married my best friend and someone that really gets me. When I can't sleep and get up and go for a screaming drive down curvy back roads to relax, she doesn't get upset...she just asks if I had fun when I return. No jealousy, no nagging...just an occasional eye roll.
I built her baby a couple years ago for her birthday.
...although she does occasionally get emotionally attached when I get rid of one of my projects to move on to something else.
Thanks for all the support guys! I apologize for the hiatus, but with the wedding and then the subsequent honeymoon I simply did not have the time to finish her.
The account reps in the company I work for found out I was going to be gone for 2 full weeks and for the prior 2 months I was travelling Sunday - Friday visiting customers. The week of my wedding I started off in Lexington KY, Houston TX, New Orleans LA, Jackson MS, and made it back home to Birmingham, AL home late Thursday night in time to get everything prepped at the wedding venue on Friday for the Sat wedding.
Oddly enough, I still found time to put 3k miles on her with the mis-colored parts and wrinkled quarter panel just because she was so much fun to drive.
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You've done well! If we have a lick of sense we do as you do and marry up.....
Destroy those "before" pictures now. Car looks showroom! Great work, thanks for sharing your passion for your work.
Thank you, and I do really enjoy my projects. There are a couple reasons I keep the "before" pics. Each step is documented for the new owner so they know everything I did to the vehicle, and to be quite honest, I feel a sense of accomplishment when I see them together
I will eventually let this one go for somewhere around wholesale/trade-in ($45k) but I want the new buyer to know he is getting a good vehicle for a good price.
Awesome winner. Have so enjoyed following this project. Bet the Porsche guys can't do this!
LOL...Years ago when I was first getting started I restored 3 different Porsche 928's but they were not physically damaged, they were just neglected. The last one was a Euro and I sold it before I finished it never to look back. However, many Porsche guys even refuse to include the 928 in their little club, so I have since wised up/grown up and moved on to much more desireable projects.
Rule #1: the top has to be down if it isn't raining.
Rule #2: see rule #1
Hope you're able to put some miles on it before selling.
I agree with rule 1 and rule 2...but those were taken after a group of us rode over to Starbucks and it looked like it might shower while we were all inside in the AC...so even the Ferrari beside me put his up...so I did too
Oh, I am definitely putting miles on her, and it will be fall before I consider letting her go or putting her on the market with a price...but I first have to locate a rebuildable R AWD...
BTW, that bright green Lamborghini Aventador Superveloce Roadster is #1 of 500...he just took delivery of it. He has multiple Lambos and a handful of Ferraris including an Enzo he drives over occasionally...
BTW, that bright green Aventador is just as ugly in that color as it is in every other color in which it is available, clearly the ugliest car of all of those at your Cars and Coffee.
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