I absolutely love working on cars, when the parts are available. It just gets frustrating when you find yourself paying for parts that should have been recycled, and still needing to find the part again, and again,...
I honestly think about 1/3 of the budget on this TR2 restoration went into unusable parts. I hate to do it, but I think I'm going to draw a line on 30 years old for future projects. That seems to be where the difficulty in obtaining parts gets severe.
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PS...most likely don't know, but my daily driver Jaguar got totaled 2 months ago in a hit and run. Real bummer, as I drove that car for 12 years and loved it. Anyway...I bought a much newer used Corvette to replace it, since the kids are graduating and hauling soccer players around is no longer a factor.
I bring this up, as I started frequenting the Corvette forums. I have never seen a worse group of individuals as frequent that forum. One guy posted that he loved his new Grand Sport Corvette...and was immediately barraged with posts of how stupid he was, and accused him of being a troll for Chevrolet.
I bring this up, as I want to say the Guys and Gals on our BCF forums are wonderful in comparison. In this post alone I have had 3 of you offering help with my fuel tank problems. You all are great, and I am proud to be a part of this community, where all are helpful and friendly!!
And...I deleted all my favorites to the corvette forums!