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This is my work. Friends and people ask me when I’m retiring, but if this was your job and you were very well compensated for your time would you give this up?

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my assistant Harriet, she showed my around and how it works.

Lemans 296. A big difference to the challenge cars. I am not certified to work on these. This is a whole diff animal.

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Yes! Great job!

Some pics from Laguna Seca.

My car took second. Going to Italy.

Laguna Seca. The cars I worked on. This is my work. Retire? Are you kidding

Slow progress. I scribed the lines and lightly drilled out the rivet locations. Sanded the wings . Here is what I’m shooting for the 2022 Miss America.

Great job. I’m building an air racer , Miss America. Revell kit. Love P51’s trying to collect most of them .

I have this amt kit and the kit is a little dated. But you made it really nice. Great job.

Cool build.

Unfortunately guys this trend of expensive car , trucks and everything else will continue. The classic car market is lower than a few years ago but still out of most of our hands. Like duesenberg lower in price but still millions. I will still to try to buy classic cars even if they are expensive. If they go down in price, so what, drive and enjoy them. But more than likely the market always comes back and they go up, not like a new car where you lose your shirt. Pants etc. there are a few that go up. Rare ones that most of us cannot afford. As I’m looking around, my friends are getting older and have fixed incomes. I’m very lucky , but still worried about the out of control pricing on things. What do we do? And what’s next?

Jeremy Clarkston said it perfectly, you need to buy 2 Mercedes. One to drive while the other is in the shop getting fixed. But he does own a new VW GTi but Richard Hammond makes fun of him joking that you bought a car from a company that totally lied to the public .

Ok you know the one about the difference between a bmw owner and a porcupine?………. HA

Ok I will tell a story but will probably get sued. Oh well I have lawyers on retainers so they will have to earn their pay. I worked at BMW for a few years. In the 60’s and seventy’s they were a great company, I went to their schools and make a long story short I walked out of the last class , went back to the dealer I was working at and quit. It’s all about money with not just bmw but most of the German car companies. VW was totally honest with their smog and gas mileage results. NOT. They just got caught. Believe me there is more going on than any of you know. Let’s just say I will never buy a new German car. Nuff said. Now the older German cars are probably the best engineered cars ever. I am now looking at a bmw 2002 tii to purchase. Not the year , the model. 1960-70 for you younger guys. I have owned a 1970 914-6, a 914and several 911’s. Great cars. Stay away from the new stuff. Now if they came out with a much simpler car, without a lot of the electric junk that’s not needed for a person that knows how to drive. Like looking over your shoulder to see what’s in back of you, it would be so much cheaper. Like thousands of dollars. So a $60,000 car could be half that. 5 years ago I attended a Mercedes school and learned there was 137 computers on the car. Head lamp computers, door window computers, back up computers, side marker mirror computers and the list goes on. I have to admit that some of progress is great , like my corvette getting 26 mpg at 70 mph with 400 hp and 400 ft. Lbs . That in 1970 was 7 mpg and altitude adjustment with the carbs. I was on a timed runway and went 145 mph at 4500 rpm with the ac on and the cd player going, my 69 camaro seemed like it was falling apart at 120 and got a great 10 mpg. I know gas was cheaper but so was wages. So some progress is welcomed but when it’s dedicated to total greed is when I draw the line.

Very cool

I have a friend that works on exotic SUV’s and he just put in a headlamp to a ( I won’t say the brand) British SUV and it was $8000. Come on, this is getting out of control.

It’s beautiful