Thread: Project '49 Shoebox.

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That would be pretty cool if you and she could do a project together. My last girlfriend was willing to roll up her sleeves and do things like this. She and I bought a 27 Foot SeaRay together that had been repo'd and needed some work. I did the mechanical stuff and she did the cabin and cosmetics. Some of her ideas were actually good ones and I was impressed that she was able to figure this stuff out. She also helped me pull and rebuild the engine on another boat we had, and was a tremendous help in doing those things.

In fact, she sewed up the interior for my '27 when we did some things to it about 9 years ago.

Don

Don, it would be nice, I may talk her into cutting the top on the 51 Plymouth, and I’m like mopar34 I would like to make a Carson style top. We do just about everything together, we cannot afford to have repair people come in we just try to do it ourselves. We have put three gas furnaces in this house, one we did twice because of carbon monoxide getting through the walls where the pipes were rusted out. We changed that one twice, this time we put an outside combustion unit in. We have put A coils in two units, two outside condenser; had a guy working on the side hook up the AC lines. We change from gas to an electric hot water heater. We have ran 220 lines where ever we need them in the garage and house, that’s a plus for living in the country. We ran a bigger breaker box hooked it up; we had to dig up the sewer pipes in January with a jackhammer. We put new parquet floors in one bedroom and we still have the dining room to go. It’s amazing what you can do when you can’t afford to pay someone to do it.

She will help me with the floor pans in the Nova, and then we may get started on her 68 Camaro convertible. She tells the oldest grandson they will be driving with the hair blowing in the wind, mine will be gone by then.

We have two of the three grandson's that love the cars.

When my garage gets to the point where I no longer can walk through she feels sorry for me and pitches right in and it's back to order.

Richard