Thread: Hello from Northwest Washington
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12-14-2017 10:39 AM #1
Hello from Northwest Washington
Figured I'd better introduce myself before I start a build thread. My name is Ryan, but I'll also answer to Red or Mazingo (last name). I'm 30 years old, married with a beautiful little 2 year old daughter, and I live in Silvana, Washington which is about 60 miles north of Seattle.
In March I bought the cleanest, unrestored 80 year old car I've ever laid eyes on outside of private collections and museums. It's a 1937 Dodge 4 door sedan and it was a stock running, driving car all the way up to the 1990s. I have a ton of history for this car, including the original dealership window sticker, but I'll save most of that for the build thread.
I'm an air conditioning and refrigeration technician by trade, and I've spent the last few years working for Fluke setting up and testing temperature calibration baths. Before that I spent 6 years in the US Navy when I was fresh out of highschool. I'm pretty mechanically inclined, and this isn't my first project, but I know there will be more than a few head scratches along the way, so I'm hoping to build up a network of folks here that I can share my passion with and bounce ideas off of; because the wife just thinks I'm nuts.
-Red
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