We did everything we could to make the car with "no excuses." A lot of parts ended up in the junk pile. I have always loved the quote from Theodore Roosevelt (though some of his policies I could do without).
"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat." Theodore Roosevelt
I wanted to use this quote here in the book, but as things got moved around and tweaked the quote ended up in the aluminum section--where it is equally applicable.
