Thank god my wife really understands what it is all about !! She
encourages me to get on with my MGB GT V8 build. She even told me to take
the "holiday" money !!! This maybe because she has seen other wives losing
husbands to golf, skiing (and boy they can be REAL expensive) and short
skirted office "colleagues". She has a friend whose husband stops in at
the pub EVERY day and has a few (plus beer and wine for dinner) and this
calculates out to more than my MGB. Another point is that some of the
money spent on a restoration job is recoverable which is not the case with
green fees, ski lift charges, bar bills, and fancy presents for "obliging"
ladies! One of her yoga students told her that her husband goes away for
every second week-end to go skiing.
At 01:58 PM 3/22/2003 -0800, Larry Colen wrote:
>On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 03:19:30PM -0500, Zubrovka wrote:
>
>
> > I was standing there looking at the interior and my wife walks in and
> > says "Is that Emmy?" (name we called the MG back when she was
> > running in the early 80's) and I say "yep" and the wife says, "what a
> > hunk of junk, why don't you find something that looks like a car"
> > then she walked out. I looked at the lil car and patted it on the
> > trunk lid and whispered "she didn't mean it". I mean the car
> > actually looked worse after the name calling.
> > I got to thinking, this is where a lot of people give up on their
> > projects, when people who matter to them make hurtful remarks.
> > So what do y'all do?
> > It made me have more resolve to fix the car.
> > I have very good memories of jauntily driving down country lanes in it.
> > Anyhow, just wondering how y'all cope with the down side.
> > John
> >
>
>When I was married, I started a massive restoration project on my
>MGBGT. I got about to the point of everything being torn apart, though
>I owned most of the new engine parts, when I found out that my wife
>had managed to not only spend all of our money, but max out my credit
>as well, putting a halt to the project. To make a long story short, I
>still have the MG and just got back from a short test drive.
>
>There are many things that can be done to rejuevenate your enthusiasm
>that are less expensive than divorce, however. First of all, what is
>the condition of the bodywork? I got mine painted at Earl Scheib for
>about $220. It's definitely a 20/20 paintjob, (looks fine from 20 feet
>away as she drives by at 20 MPH), but it's a MAJOR improvement over
>what she was.
>
>Just getting the car running and going for a drive is another major
>boost to ones enthusiasm. About three years ago I finally decided
>that I'd never be able to do all of the things I wanted to do in the
>restoration, but it wouldn't be that hard/expensive to get the car
>back on the road. As expected, getting her on the road took about four
>times as much money and hours of work as expected, but I had a running
>MG again.
>
>Then again you could mention to your wife that the car does take a
>fair amount of money and time but it's still less expensive and bother
>than a mistress.
>
>HTH,
> larry
>
>
>--
>I've found something worse than oldies station that play the music I used to
>listen to. Oldies stations that play the "new" music I used to complain about.
>lrc@red4est.com http://www.red4est.com/lrc
>
Regards
Barrie
Barrie Robinson
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