Colin,
Thanks for deflating my balloon!!! After all these years of hoping to
rebuild my +4, I gather that I may not be qualified. Let's see now, I need
to be
"a young, wealthy, retired man with an understanding wife."
* Unless I find a way to turn back the clock, I'll never be a young
man again (except, perhaps, to a 90 year old). >:-(
* Unless some benefactor mentions me in his/her will, I will never be
wealthy (in the pecuniary sense of the word). Working, in an indirect way,
for the government, I have found from experience that "the government giveth
and the government taketh away." >:-(
* Retiring is an option that looks more and more likely though, not so
much because I'm getting to that age but because the government (see above)
in its wisdom, doesn't think what I'm doing is worthwhile anymore. :-|
* "An understanding wife." That I have!! She's one of these gems
that doesn't want me to sell the +4. :-)
So, in retrospect, Colin, maybe you didn't prick the whole balloon, only
half of it! ;-)
BTW, "taking candy from little children" indeed! I gather that's not as
easy as it sounds!
Chuck Vandergraaf (who is scheduled to visit New Mexico in May, but only Los
Alamos via Albuquerque and Santa Fe, not Las Cruces and, unfortunately, not
in a Morgan, +4 or otherwise).
> ----------
> From: CobMeister[SMTP:CobMeister@aol.com]
> Sent: April 20, 1998 12:47 PM
> To: Vandergraaf, Chuck; morgans@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: RE: checking a price
>
> Hey Chuck,
>
> In a message dated 4/20/98 9:32:21 PM, you wrote:
>
> <<Colin,
>
> You're forgetting one minor detail, the +4 is question "needs assembling,"
> only THEN will Will be able to go fast in his newly acquired +4. (I speak
> from experience, with my +4 needing assembling as well).
>
> Will, you have impeccable taste! However, I was not aware that "flat rad
> fhc's" existed. There are "dhc's" and I think they are about the nicest
> flat rads ever built.
>
> Chuck Vandergraaf
> '52 +4>>
>
> Chuck, Chuck, Chuck... I bet you take candy away from little children,
> too!
> This is the stuff dreams are made of! To take a Mog that is a pile of
> parts
> and re-create a thing of beauty and value... Wonderful!
>
> There is not much doubt that the Flat Rad dhc or roadster +4 is among the
> most
> desireable of Morgans. The only fhc Mogs I am aware of are the +4+'s and
> some
> Trikes (including some pie wagons and delivery trucks). I guess you could
> call
> a couple of the race cars fhc.
>
> I am sure Will knows that this is a project for a young man... A young,
> wealthy man... A young, wealthy, retired man.... A young, wealthy,
> retired
> man with an understanding wife....
>
> --Colin
>
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