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I hope the new owner has(d) deep pockets and a long list of friends with similar interests that will keep you busy for many years Dave.
They say everything happens for a reason.
For me that reason is usually because I've made some bad decisions that I need to pay for.
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It's still sitting in my garage.
Yes, it's torture basically. I say you fire it up one last time and do a big smokey in the garage. Hurry up..... before Ma gets home. 
Camp is where you make it.
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I kind of know how this buyer must feel. Many years ago I lost, on trade, a fine Krag carbine. I hated to part with it but, owing to youth, I did. Lamenting it afterwards for years.
Fast forward to about twenty years ago. Cedar Rapids gun show. I'm just browsing along and eye a Krag carbine. Picking it up and looking at the SN I couldn't believe my eyes! Yes, it was the very rifle I traded in 1980ish.
So my original sixty dollar rifle purchase in 1966 was back in my rack in 1996. It's value had grown by a factor of six in the meantime but I was happy to pay.
The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those who got there first.
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This isn't a story, or a yarn, or a vignette......
it's a SAGA !
Sounds like you're gonna' plow some of it back into the shop, ......you CAN'T go wrong doing that.
kudos,
GTC
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Best post I've read on here.... ever. You did a fantastic job on the car and it is awesome that is going to make the new owner happy as a clam.
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There will be lots of projects built in dave's future dream shop. Sounds like a mighty good name fer yer new business. Power to ya!
The Mayans had it right. If you�re going to predict the future, it�s best to aim far beyond your life expectancy, lest you wind up red-faced in a bunker overstocked with Spam and ammo.
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Bought both my E-bodies from the same original owner , he's dead now so they're mine forever.
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Great story all the way around. I really liked the picture of the 'runner with the organic, growing larger and more powerful every day engine! 
Not a real member - just an ordinary guy who appreciates being able to hang around and say something once in awhile.
Happily Trapped In the Past (Thanks, Joe)
Not only a less than minimally educated person, but stupid and out of touch as well.
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Liberalism is a mental disorder that leads to social disease.
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Life is simply amazing....
"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." - John Adams
Turdlike, by default.
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Well, congrats and condolences at the same time! Hope you post another thread on the progress of your new dream. The last one was fun to watch.
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It was his car origianly? And now he is getting it back in better than new condition!
That is way too cool Dave.
I would ask that you ( or your kids ) keep in touch with him or his kin. It would make a great story about the car from here on.
And maybe even let one of your kids connect with it later.
Too many times, I have wondered, waht ever became of that '57 Chevy? Or My old 61 bubble top Impala?
Now with e mail, it would be easier than ever to keep track.
"wanna hear God laugh? Tell Him you have complete control now!"
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Wow! Can you say EPIC magazine article that includes the build and the Campfire followalong?
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An 8 dollar driveway boy living in a T-111 shack
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Congratulations all around! This is a great ending to (as Crossfire said) a saga.
Ben
Some days it takes most of the day for me to do practically nothing...
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You mentioned your dream on the RR thread.
It isn't the first time a mopar has helped a dream come through... (fondly remembering my 72 Challenger)
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great stuff Northern Dave
and while I know it's little comfort
it runs true for most of us
the realization of great dreams are most often accompanied by great sacrifice
can't begin to tell you how fortunate I feel to have shared some of your life
from the angle I see it, it is indeed a good one.
Weezy's car,
your boy shaving
camp Chickenbuck
the RR build
and now this, how that build may lead to more of your obvious talent and dedication to making lots more old graybeards happy by restoring the cars of our youth
deeply grateful for you allowing us to share a bit of your life by what you post here.
wishing you every success and happiness
I'm pretty certain when we sing our anthem and mention the land of the free, the original intent didn't mean cell phones, food stamps and birth control.
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hey dave did u... turn the guy onto the build thread???...seems if he was looking for 7 years he would seen the thread ...a few of the rite words typed into "bing" brings a guy to the campfire....
I work harder than a ugly stripper....
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I don't think he's much of a computer guy. I had considered floating him a link to the build thread here. I might do that.
Thanks for the great words of encouragement everybody, very nice.
Something clever here.
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Dave congratulations.
Hot rod magazine article for sure.
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