Subject: RE: Progress pics
Author: Charlie Mullendore
Date: Apr 25, 2005, 3:34 PM
Post ID: 1718758725
Well, one thing's for sure. It'll get a lot better treatment (at first
anyway) than the raggedy old '69 does, but sooner or later it'll develop
a little patina of it's own. Then I won't have to worry so much. Gonna'
be anal about this thing, I can see it already. But, about the only
thing that got me through this project (and the dark, cold days of
winter) were daydreams of me riding it on a beautiful day, down my
favorite roads. So, that's what I hope to do this Sunday. If it doesn't
rain - then I'll take the '69! :-).
Lannis wrote:
Charlie Mullendore wrote:
Charlie - Are you REALLY going to have the heart to take that beautiful piece of art, with all the thousands of dollars and hundreds (or maybe thousands) of hours you've got in it...and subject it to that long, hard road? Have it sprayed with road-grit-infused filthy water from passing trucks, hard-shelled bugs banging into it, gravel kicked up off the road knocking chips out of the paint and starting rust spots, fierce sunshine full of UV radiation fading the paint and instrument faces, eroding the rubber....It's such a shame we can't have our cake and eat it too. But I guess that's what "BEFORE" photos are for... Lannis |
Charlie
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