One Year Of Ownership

["Shain Brannan" <shain@xxxx>]

Hello Everyone,

In roughy two weeks it will be my birthday, as well as my one 
year ownership of 10140. I bought her a year ago and a poorly 
stored garage wreck. She was is such bad mechanical condition that 
i had to pull her out of the garage with a truck because her brakes 
had rusted together. Her clutch and preasure plate was rusted 
together, and fuel system has 13 year old gas still in the tank. 
After the first 2 months i took her for her first trip around my 
development, although she was smoking terribly and barely made it, 
it was the best 1 minute trip of my life. Currently my car is in 
excellant mechanical shape, and is in daily driveable condition if 
need be. I would take my car anywhere with complete confidence. I 
brought back to life a car that would have continued to rot away in 
a garage. Ownership on my car was a great accomplishment in my 
young life, but being able to restore a dead car made the trip so 
much better.

There were many times through my adventure when i felt that i was 
never going to get the car going or running correctly. At some 
points i felt so compelled to sell the car due to frustration. So 
my patientence, intelligence and my discover card helped me make it 
to the end. I have done everything on the car myself, minus 
changing the tires and installing a rear glass panel. Anyone who has 
ever seen me with my car at gatherings i'm always smiling and take 
great pride in my accomplishment. 

I would just like to thank everyone on the list who has offered 
me advice. Personal thank yous go out to Rob Grady and all of his 
staff, David Teitabulm (sorry bout the spelling) for alot of advice 
and for adjusting my door, and Matt Olans and Jim Reeve for helping 
me get feathered into my local group. 

Lasty, to all of you out there who have a project they have been 
putting off, go ahead and try it. I am a young 20 year old person 
and have been more hten able to bring a dead car back to life. I 
have even have developed some new items, like braid ss fuel 
accumulator lines, my new 140 amp alternator that is smaller then 
mos ti have seen and a easy to build fan module. Remeber trying is 
better then leaving something undone or broken, wether to fix it 
sucessfuly or not.

Cheers!
-Shain Brannan
#10140