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Healey Dave, I found a way around the wife complaining about the car when I bought our BN7. Since I've restored cars in the past and know the amount of time work and $$$$ required I told her I wasn't going to buy it. She always wanted a sports car and she said she really liked the Healey and it was the same year as her birthdate. 1962
So I bought it for her and she has never complained once about the time or money. I am however getting kinda concerned now that it's getting close to being on the road that she may think I would actually let her drive it....thinking about making the seat were it won't slide forward.. Bob
 
I am getting ready to paint my BN-2. I've done everything except the machine work on the engine (although I did install the rear oil seal kit). Wire harness, lead work, panel beating, seat upholstry (the people who did that for a living must have been a cranky bunch). By far and away the hardest, most time consuming, and physically demanding job was replacing the outer sills and rear door pillars. Aside from setting myself on fire once (smelled the slow burning cotton before I felt it), getting a hot welding clinker in my ear (makes a very unique sort of sizzle), and having to stop hammering to separate already drilled out spot welds because I was unable to hold the hammer anymore, it was a real pain in the neck (literally). Then you get to make a bazillion measurements, cleco all the parts together, tack weld, untack weld, fit the doors, fit the doors again, weld it all up, pray that the doors still fit and then, walk away for a couple of months. The good part was that upon my return to the scene of the crime I found that I had done OK. You couldn't pay me enough to do that again. Oh, also lifting the engine and transmission out as an assembly was almost a nightmare at the start, not because it is a particularly hard job, but because I did it by myself with a rolling cherry picker hoist. Talk about scary! I should have realized how small steel wheels on a rough old barn concrete floor would make for a jerky, almost impossible, ride. Hey, but then I wouldn't have any stories...

Jon
 
Hey Roger, what planet do you live on? You're probably single. Its more like being married to two women. Both demanding your time and you have to be Solomon and divy your time and money wisely (or slyly).
 
AUSMHLY One day you find her standing in the middle of the garage said:
You have broken into the evidence locker and consumed the evidence again haven't you?
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