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Project PorscheHow do you completely disassemble a classic sports car and rebuild it better than new? You take a deep breath and dive in. (by Stephan Wilkinson)
My carefully wrapped Christmas present in 1998 was a $4.95 issue of Hemmings Motor News, the thick, pulp-paper monthly classified listing of collector cars. Even if it carries a 21st-century date, each issue still looks like something you'd find on the toilet tank of a 1950s Sinclair station restroom in Tucumcari, New Mexico. So was this a cheesy gift from my wife? Hardly.
"You look bored," Susan laughed at my bafflement. "You finished the addition to our house. You built an airplane. You're playing around with models." (No, no--the 1:48-scale plastic kit kind, not the double-breasted variety.) "You need another project," she said. "Buy yourself a car to restore. A Ferrari. An Aston Martin like the one you had when you were a young stud. A Corvette, a Cobra ?"
Wow. I'd always wanted to restore a car, and my unfailingly perceptive partner, game for anything, was encouraging me to start at the top. Husbands who feel that permission to watch the Super Bowl is marital bliss don't know what they're missing.
But I didn't want to get in over my head with an exotic car that required expensive specialist help.
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