I'm at it again - Trooper this time

[Riff Raff]

Man, I wish I had your motivation. That is going to be one slick Trooper. What are your plans for it?
I'm not sure what you do for a living, but have a feeling you could do restorations and make a nickle or two.

x2. Buffy, your talent is simply amazing!!! Perhaps you should apply for a job at Chip Foos Automotive.

[Buffy]

My day job is managing Java developers and projects but my true passion is restoring cars and bulding hot rods. My boss keeps asking my I work for him and not myself and the wife tells my I should go out on my own. I guess I just haven't had the courage to make that step. I put myself through college by working on cars with my father-in-law. We would rebuild a different totalled car every weekend for a salvage dealer. I got to cut them in half, weld them together, repair engines and do paint and body work. I would truely love to own my own restoration shop.

Working for/with Foose would truely be a dream job!!!!

[SlowPro48]

First you rebuild the VX and now this? Dude you get more done in one summer than I do in a decade! I hope you realize what a wonderful wife you have. As I'm sure you know, projects that involve spending large chunks of time in the garage will NOT get completed in a reasonable amount of time without an understanding better half!

If you ever decide to give the restoration thing a go let me know. I've got a '57 MGA that needs the entropy fighting energy and skills of a man like you. It's been taking up space for 15 years. I've never even bothered to start on it because given my monthly allotment of 8 hours in the garage - with no one session allowed to last more than 2 hours - it would take me oohhh.... about 4 lifetimes to complete.... so there it sits. I'm serious about this. I'll be your first customer! I'm not looking for a concours d'elegance quality restoration - I just want to drive the damn thing before I die!

Anyway - thanks for sharing the pics of your project - I really admire your ability to "git 'er done"!!!

[Buffy]

I do have a wonderful wife. As a matter of fact she is usually in the garage turning wrenches with me or getting the tools I need. She helped with the frame on the VX and got black highlights in her blonde hair to show for it. You gotta love a woman who will allow her husband to spray her hair with brake cleaner to try and get paint out of it, which didn't work by the way.

SlowPro48 - I see you are in Winston Salem, we should get togther sometime and talk about that 57 MGA. I helped an uncle rebuild the engine in his MGB in my teenage years. Wasn't a 57 though.