Re: Happiness is a warm... wrench? (long)

[Jon Pike <jhpike@domain.elided>]

> I was in Seattle a couple weeks ago, so I visited Wes Ingram's shop to pick up
> a new TA.  Now I know what I want to be when I grow up.  He's a great guy, and
> we US Spica car owners are fortunate to have a resource like him.  Now that
> he's convinced me that I need to put a stock airbox back on my car, I'm in a
> quandry -- polishing all those fuel injector lines easily consumed 10 hours --
> they look beautiful, like chrome crazy straws.  And the Spica pump looks
> mighty fine too.  Maybe I can mount a mirror on the fender liner so you can
> see under the airbox...
> 
> So what's the grand cosmic meaning here, the colossal realization, the big
> finish?  Nothing really.  It's been a fun winter.  I think I'll head back to
> the garage...
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Tony
> Portland, OR
> 74 GTV
> 70 2800cs
> 


Wow, Tony..  you sound like me, back when I had my first Alfa..  (and 
the second one, and...)

I would clean and polish things, use up whole Saturdays.. I even wished 
for things to go wrong, so I'd have a reason to take things apart..

I more than half seriously thought the beautiful castings of an Alfa 
motor would make a great sculpture piece, in the corner of the living 
room,  buffed up to a high sheen..

As for the airbox and view situation..  do what I used to do.  Donno if 
they came that way, but the 69 Berlina had nice thumbscrews holding down 
the straps, 15 seconds and they and the washers are off and in the 
fender gutter, then the just loose enough to wiggle and slip off hose 
clamps get wiggled and in 20 seconds the airfilter box is in my hands, 
clearing that lovely view to the impressed onlookers...

No mirrors necessary!

Jon  (still Alfaless in Irvine)
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