The good and the bad...

Got home the other day and there was a message on my machine from an Avanti (around a '79 or 80 model) customer and chapter member. He wanted to thank me for getting the thing running and driving the way it should be. He hadn't driven it in a while but it fired right up and ran like the rocket it ran like when it left the shop months ago. I had also rebuilt the front end (and it was SHOT) and got the AC working along with fixing years of amateur stuff that was done before he bought it. So nice to hear from someone who is happy...you rarely hear the good..only the bad. I had just taken my latest purchase little bitty boat out for a 'shakedown' cruise on one of our many rivers and was in a great mood...the call made me feel even better.. Then my refrigerator (ten years old) blew it's compressor less than two days before Thanksgiving... Grrrrr....full of food... Coolers full of ice to save the important stuff until Friday when Sears delivers a new one and I recon it will be turkey sandwiches for Thanksgiving dinner... Anywhoo...happy Thanksgiving, all! Studebaker George