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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Purl Gurl: [QB] Lots of fun, 66inxs! Restoring cars makes for good retirement projects, when not taking care of rental homes. * snarls * The Camaro we helped build for my sister-in-law made it into the ten finalists at the national Reno Hot August nights contest show, last week. About four-thousand entries, ended up in the top ten but did not win. We believe this is because we did not powder coat the frame and did not powder coat the suspension and axles. Nonetheless, a source of pride and family fun. More important, though, projects like this keep good family unity. We all participate in these projects, adding our own unique skills. We have family up in Reno. One of the young boys up there is so very excited. He is about eight or nine now and loves hotrods! His parents even bought him an old Plymouth "Woodie" to work on. Cannot remember the year model, somewhere in the late forties, I think maybe a 1946 to 1948 year. Last year our family arranged for him to ride in a full blown funny car in the Reno parade at night. This car is truly a dragster with a fiberglass body. Not for racing, strictly for show. The car has headers straight off the engine pointing up into the air. Fuel injected flame throwers shoot huge orange flames, a good twenty or thirty feet into air. Very spectacular at night, a show stopper. So our young boy gets to ride, up front, in this car during the parade. A hundred degrees at night up there, probably a hundred-fifty degrees in that funny car. He did not complain at all; nothing but grins and excitement. Our friend, Kenny, brings his funny car down here for our local Riverside "Old Farts" show. Some of the special kids around here are arranged to ride in the car, you know, kids with medical issues and such. Ours is not really about cars but rather about maintaining good family unity and family happiness, right on out to our extended family. Projects like this create a common activity which all can enjoy and participate. Seeing those grins on the faces of the kids, watching them have so much fun, makes all this money we "waste" on show cars, a very valuable investment of money. In our family, we are all about children. Taha [/QB][/QUOTE]
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