Sad, sad, sad................. I can truly relate................
When we had the '68 painted, there was some bondo work done to a dented area in
the front left corner of the bonnet. Whilst smearing the the bondo onto the area
to be filled, some of it was inadvertently placed into the grooves for the front
emblem. Can you see this one coming................??? I get the car home,
thankfully the guy from the body shop trailered it for me. I had this
overwhelming desire to place the brand new wings on the bright shiny red paint,
but alas, it was not to be. I was not to be denied my desire, so off to the rack
of small machinist files that I have. I chose a suitable file and went to work,
while the body man and paint man watch my antics. Needless to say, I was too
enthusiastic and the file "slipped"..................... giving me a wonderfully
large 6" - 8" scratch on the hood of this car that had not been home yet a half
hour. Men, let me tell you, there were tears with those cuss words to myself.
Fortunately, the guy took pity on my plight, and repaired my damage for me. My
wife still has controlling custody of said files.....................
Believe me, I feel your pain!!!!
Larry Macy wrote:
> As you may all know, chuck (no caps) recently did a bang up job painting my
> car. Yesterday I took the car in to get my new chrome wire wheels installed.
> Boy did it look sharp, for as long as it took to drive home.
>
> When I got home I took the old wheels, which the shop had kindly put in the
> boxes the new wheels came in, out of the front seat of the car. One of the
> old wheels slipped out of the box (can you see this coming?) and put 2 big
> chips in the new paint right above the pass side rear wheel. No metal got
> bent, but I can not quite repeat the words that flowed outta my mouth. Nor
> share the tears that came to my eyes. I do have a little paint left over for
> touch up, but one of the chips may be a little big for just a touch up.
>
> I am going to see chuck tonight to do a spot of work on his computer, I'll
> have him take a look to see what can be done. Still :-(
>
> Larry
>
> Larry Macy
> 78 Midget
>
> Keep your top down and your chin up
>
> Larry B. Macy, Ph.D.
> macy@bbl.med.upenn.edu
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> Department of Psychiatry
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>
> Ask a question and you're a fool for three minutes; do not ask a
> question and you're a fool for the rest of your life.
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