Ya know Mike, it seems every problem that comes up in building a car happens because of things outside professionals screw up.............be it a body shop keeping a car way too long, or an upholsterer messing up, or, like in this case, the powder coater doing something wrong. You can control the stuff you do yourself, but lose control when it goes to someone else.

We are actually in worse shape than we were 3 weeks ago because now every part is powder coated and that stuff is a bear to get back off. At least before we had bare metal to work with. Don tried to put it into perspective for us by saying that he had those problems with his T when it got together. First the bent valve, and then the motor and transmission coming back out so the transmission could go back for rebuilding after it failed. Oh, and he also had the steering arm snap in half. Don rolls with the punches pretty well and simply parked the T until he felt like working on it again. Dan will rebound too, but I think the 4 years worth of work is wearing thin on him right now.

Speaking of Don, he went to another show today and picked up another trophy. I'm gonna stop hanging around with him, it's bad for my ego.

Don