Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Restorations and other dangerous habits

[Rick Lindsay (rolindsay]

Larry, You have hit right on the topic that gets me into trouble.  It's not the 
greed of collecting and its not the envy of getting it before ssomeone else.  
its the inner desire to preserve these ikons of automotive history.  I'm just a 
sucker for a car sitting idle and wasting away.  (And I love Duettos!)

And as an aside, but not far aside; Who in 1970 would have thought that these 
old cars would be of such importance today?  Leape forward almost 40 years.  
Who today can devine which cars will be the classics 40 years from now?  And if 
we let this crush-the-gas-guzzler concept go through WE'LL NEVER KNOW!

rick


--- On Thu, 4/2/09, LarryT <l02turner [at] comcast.net> wrote:

> From: LarryT <l02turner [at] comcast.net>
> Subject: [Ferrari] Restorations and other dangerous habits
> To: "rolindsay" <rolindsay [at] yahoo.com>
> Cc: "The FerrariList" <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
> Date: Thursday, April 2, 2009, 10:55 AM
> Hey Dudes and Dudettes!
>     Just rec'd the latest R&T and immediately
> turned to Peter Egan's column. 
> He has written another excellent article - this time about
> restoring old 
> cars.   As usual I found myself nodding along and thinking,
> "Yup, I did 
> that, too." as he wrote about the 8 stages of
> restorations" kind of like the 
> "5 stages of grief" (or ever how many there are).
> 
>     As it happens, while driving my 911 around yesterday -
> taking the long 
> way home to burn some more high-test and just enjoy a
> sunny, mild pre-Spring 
> day when I spotted them.  Under tarps in a side yard were 3
> familiar 
> shapes - looked like 2 Alfa Romeo Coupes and 1 A-R Duetto
> boat-tail 
> convertible (like the one in the Graduate).   Hmmm... says
> I, "I wonder if 
> they're for sale?"  I seem to have jumped to Step
> 3 instantly.   Then a 
> flash of sanity, "no, wait, I still need to finish my
> '66 MGB, started 
> looong ago when I stopped driving it in 1990 and still with
> way too many 
> parts scattered all over the garage, barn and storage
> building. (Wow! I have 
> way too much stuff if I need all that space!)  Plus, I know
> little to 
> nothing about old Alfa's except what I have read and
> the test drive in a 75 
> Coupe a long time ago -which *was* impressive.  So, for now
> I'm safe from 
> returning to the land of insanity where I would have had 3
> old, rusty cars 
> towed home not even knowing if they had ever run in this
> century.  Plus, the 
> Alfa's reputation for rusting is very bad - and after
> battling the rust on 
> my MGB for waaay to long I vowed, "Never again!" 
> Which always reminds me of 
> the James Bond movie of a similar name - evidently which
> came from a comment 
> by S. Connery that he would never again utter those three
> words he made 
> famous.  "Bond, James Bond."  It seems that if
> enough money is waved under 
> his nose he'll change his mind.  I know I'd do a
> LOT for a multi-million $$ 
> paycheck!
> 
> Have a nice day ya'll!  Time to visit the garage and
> *do* something!
> 
> LarryT
> Porsche Posters!! And
> Oil Analysis at youroil.net. 
> 
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