RE: Our cars

[Dave64 <lt7dave@xxxxxxxxx>]

My comments most surely apply to all of us here:  I figure I've saved us thousands over the years by doing my own wrenching.  Just this past Thanksgiving I replaced the starter and battery on our daughter's car when she was home on college break.  Got lucky and it died in the driveway the day after she drove it home.  It cost me about $200. in parts - would have been a pretty penny more if someone else had to do it up at college.  I also wonder what the $7.50 intake gaskets I put on my wife's PT Cruiser Turbo would have cost if a garage did it instead of me in our garage.  It took me all day, and it would have been several labor hours at a shop.  I'm fortunate that my wife gives me space in my mid life crisis, but in my mind I do justify my Mopar madness expenses with all the money I've saved us over the years (also with do it yourself home repair/projects).  I have to thank my dad who let me start my wrenching on his Ford station wagon in high school. 
 He wasn't a mechanic or mechanical, but he let me cut my teeth on his cars - to his ultimate benefit!

Dave

--- On Tue, 2/1/11, Jeff Adams <ledman_70@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Jeff Adams <ledman_70@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: RE: Our cars
> To: 1962to1965mopars@xxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Tuesday, February 1, 2011, 5:22 PM
> 
> Off topic and just my 2cents worth, but something occurred
> to me a 
> couple weeks ago that I plan on using during OUR next
> argument when my 
> wife complains about me spending so much time in the
> garage. She 
> benefits GREATLY by me being able to work on the house,
> build her 
> furniture, do electricall, plumbing, install doors and
> windows, etc... 
> ALL of which I can do because I got started working on cars
> at a young 
> age and everything else followed. She reaps the benefit of
> those skills 
> and plans her projects around them. Maybe a little trump
> card for some 
> of us, ya think? Ooops, fell off my soapbox!
> Sorry for the rant or if I offended any female members.
> William Harrison wrote:
> > 
> > The dust has not settled yet.....
> > It is very true that men are logical thinkers and
> women are not.
> > It does get old though, when all I hear is that the 65
> is a money pit.
> > I quit drinking 32 years ago and quit smoking almost
> 20 years ago.
> > What I spend on the car is not a much as is spent on
> cigarettes and 
> > liquor.
> > Logical thinking on my part but the wife sees it a
> different way.
> > Oh well....the car stays.....Hope she does too...
> > Later
> > Bill
> > 
> > --- On Tue, 2/1/11, Jeff Adams <ledman_70@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > 
> > > From: Jeff Adams <ledman_70@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Subject: RE: Our cars
> > > To: 1962to1965mopars@xxxxxxxxxx
> > > Date: Tuesday, February 1, 2011, 1:04 PM
> > >=20
> > > The problem here Bill is you're trying to apply
> reason and
> > > logic to=20
> > > someone is not logical or reasonable when it
> comes to old
> > > cars. That was=20
> > > probably a real big hurt to her and as those of
> use that
> > > are married can=20
> > > tell you, it will take a while, if ever, to
> recover from
> > > that one.
> > >=20
> > > William Harrison wrote:
> > > >=20
> > > > Stepped on my old whang twice this weekend.
> > > > It seems that when your wife is bitching
> about the
> > > money pit sitting=20
> > > > next to the garage under a cover waiting for
> spring
> > > that......You don't=20
> > > > blurt out that she will go before the car
> goes.....
> > > > Not really sure if she will be around this
> spring.
> > > > Second screw up was telling a member to stop
> sending
> > > spam to the site.
> > > > Soon found out the his account had been
> hacked and he
> > > is very pissed at=20
> > > > me..
> > > > Him I don't care about but after 28 years;
> I'm still
> > > sorta attached to=20
> > > > my wife....Her, I care about...
> > > > I did apologize to both but it didn't
> help...
> > > > Any one else stepped on it like that too.
> > > > Later
> > > > Bill Harrison
> > > > 65 Coronet=20
> > > > 2 dr post
> > >=20
> > >=20
> > >=20
> > > Jeff Adams
> > > 64 Polara
> > >=20
> > >=20
> > > ----
> > > Please address private mail -- mail of interest
> to only one
> > > person -- directly to that person.=A0 I.e., send
> > > parts/car transactions and negotiations as well
> as other
> > > personal messages only to the intended recipient,
> not to the
> > > Clubhouse public address. This practice will
> protect your
> > > privacy, reduce the total volume of mail and fine
> tune the
> > > content signal to Mopar topic.=A0 Thanks!
> > >=20
> > > 1962 to 1965 Mopar Clubhouse Discussion
> Guidelines:
> > > http://www.1962to1965mopar.ornocar.org/mletiq.html and
> > > http://www.1962to1965mopar.ornocar.com/general_disclaimer.html.
> > >=20
> > >=20
> > > 
> 
> 
> 
> Jeff Adams
> 64 Polara
> 
> 
> ----
> Please address private mail -- mail of interest to only one
> person -- directly to that person.  I.e., send
> parts/car transactions and negotiations as well as other
> personal messages only to the intended recipient, not to the
> Clubhouse public address. This practice will protect your
> privacy, reduce the total volume of mail and fine tune the
> content signal to Mopar topic.  Thanks!
> 
> 1962 to 1965 Mopar Clubhouse Discussion Guidelines:
> http://www.1962to1965mopar.ornocar.org/mletiq.html and
> http://www.1962to1965mopar.ornocar.com/general_disclaimer.html.
> 
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