That's beautiful man! (uncontrollable sobbing) I hope you and your bugeye have
many (sob) happy (sob) years (sob) together!
Oh - BTW, when you get it finished and start driving it around... Don't ever
park behind a Ford F150, especially if it's white.
Regards - Bryan Vandiver (59-sprite) in need of new bonnet
San Jose, CA
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>To: spridgets@autox.team.net
>Subject: Got my dream car.
>
>A short story to share with the list.
> In 1979 I was 17 years old and interested in cars. A young man across
the street bought a 59 bugeye for
>$500 and set to work restoring it. In the process, he taught me everything he
knew about car repair as I
>passed him the wrenches. I went off to college and he drove off in a
>beautiful
red bugeye with a tricked out
>948cc.
>
>Thirty years passed.
>
> I reconnected with the 'young man' from across the street last month.
That bugeye had been sitting in
>his gargage for the last 12 years. Now green, sporting a bored and ported
1275cc with a single SU feeding a
>Rayjay turbocharger. After a brief period of pathetic pleading from the
kneeling position the car is mine.
>Trailered to Davis, CA and tucked safely in MY garage. Total restoration now
under way slated for completion
>this spring.
> Multiple queries about the best way to do this or that will hit the
>list
in the winter months to
>follow.
> Regards, Glen Byrns
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