[Historybuff]

That last comment sparks another tangent, I know so many friends who have an interesting car but just never get it finished. One guy has a Safir Mk. V Ford GT, accidentlaly left the rear decklid unfastnened, it blew off and got damaged but that was five years ago and never been fixed and I wonder
"How many great times & events has he missed by not pushing the body shop guy to fix it?"

Another friend has two great Lussos, a matched set except for color, and at one time when he was about 55 had a young german girlifrienda bout 25 and since he was a pilot could have gotten a Ferrari airfreighted to Europe for free and made a grand toru with this babe but he didn't and now he's 75; she's married to someone else and I wonder "Did he miss one of life's great opportunities"

So all I'm saying is that if you've got an interesting car, get it running ("flight ready" is I think the Air Force [hrase) and get it out there to the events you want to go to because you never know what nasty surprises may curtail your activities down the road. I remember I had a Ferrari 365GTC/4 that never ran on all 12 cylinders but at least I got it up to Monterey, to Palm Springs, to several concours (where I always avoided judging) , all on a shoestring and sold it for twice what I bought it for. I was lucky the $25,000 engine never blew--but at least I have great memories of the places I went. Other project cars that never got finished are just a searing boring memory. I will never have another sports car that isn't ready to run at any time, even when in the body shop. Life's too short to wait.