Time flies and my car is once again in storage. But I live 40 miles south of Traverse City and am seriously contemplating entering my car in the concours.

Paul

Two seasons in Michigan: warm and cold. Had a great summer, put 1500 miles on the car. Now it sits in a bubble in a heated garage. Waiting for spring. Maybe April 15, maybe May 1.

Gee, I'd wish I lived in California so I could drive year round, but seems like they like to steal 914's out there!

Drove 400 miles to check it out while in progress with Brad. Do not, I repeat, DO NOT, expect to drive to East Peoria and find a room! All of them were booked: they had graduation at the local college that weekend as well as the final high school regional track meet. Every Holiday Inn, every nook and cranny, every room was TAKEN. And every place had a school bus in the parking lot which means lots of kids in lots of rooms. Buddy and I stayed in Bloomington over 30 miles away.

Funny thing is, Brad offered to put me up (he has a separate wing on his house with guest bedrooms) and I was too stoooopid not to take him up on it. Oh well, live and learn.

Hope to post pics this weekend when I get some time.

Paul

Work begins. Actually Brad Mayeur and Michael are doing it all!

Exhaust going out for some kinda remetalizing procedure. The whole system including the heater boxes. Rebuilt calipers for up front. Newly refinished struts up front with U-tabs for sway bar. Am adding a factory bar (the only real modification, I just know it's gonna help performance and I WANT IT "originality be damned"). Engine bay resprayed. Engine sheet metal being redone. New fuel lines except in tunnel, Brad says the don't go bad. A couple of body ripples removed, maybe even little dent in the front valance. Engine and tranny resealed, also CV joints repacked. Etc. etc. Maybe ready early June.

I can't wait!!

biz

Find out more next week. After a month incarcerated in a storage box, the little orange car is finally in the shop!

Paul

Car is locked and loaded. Post some pics tomorrow. I may need to have some type of conjugal visit while it's getting the treatment at Mayeur's. Don't know if I can wait until it's all done!

I had a bad cold earlier this week, couldn't sleep. Thought the car was delivered with the biggest, most gigantic gaping crack in the dash top at the instrument cluster angle. Exposed, rotting foam. And the dash face was Armor All'ed to oblivion with peeling paint. It was a NIGHTMARE!

Maybe I should get a life...

Tomorrow or Saturday. Seller sent me a picture of the keys. Shades of my past: the leather pouch! I was gonna buy one, it was always my favorite, but the car comes with it. Close inspection shows one set of keys brand new, the other were the "daily" use keys.

Anyway, getting insurance on it in case the car falls on someone and kills them. I heard of someone who helped his friend unload the friend's daughter's car, pinched the dickens out of his hand and missed a month's work. He has to sue the SELLER because the title wasn't signed over yet or something. Strange legal entanglements happen in this modern world of ours...

The truck is tooooo wide to make it into his neighborhood so he has to drive it out to the truck some 5 miles away. Seller promised to take pictures...

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Firmed things up with Brad Mayeur. What a patient guy (I ask a lot of questions) and a real gentleman. He agreed to take pics when the car comes off the van from California.

Got a lot of positive posts from my initial pics. Sometimes I think I fell in love with the pics of the car rather than the car itself! The seller really has a nice way with the camera.

Anyway, just wait till I post pictures of the engine compartment. Quite a bit rougher than the pretty outside and cockpit!

Am having the car transported by Passport FedEx, covered trailer. Has vehicle lift in the back that keeps the car horizontal so no scrapes going up and down ramps. I think each trailer holds six vehicles so your car rides with others and takes a very circuitous route to the final destination. Their trailers are hard-sided. I especially liked the fact that they own their own fleet of trucks and do not broker your car out to an independent. Was recommended by Jim Chambers.

Pickup no sooner than next Friday; up to 3 weeks to get it.