Welp (thx RPM).......Fresh start...new beginnings...yada-yada-yada....
On behalf of "da guyz"...we glad to see ya back (and your front) !
Is LeMoore close to Bakersfield ???
Check out all the details and come on down to the Bash and meet the normal-people..(welp (thx RPM) some of us !
(We'll have name tags so don't feel shy)
6sally6

Would love to have you join us for at least Saturday Craig. These guys will grow on you quickly, and you'll be fast friends with many. The Bash T-shirts are available at the group price for just one more week. Hope to see you at the Bash Craig, you won't be disappointed.

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Sally, ya gotta go heavy on the Lee in Lee Moore. Lt Dan was stationed at Lemoore NAS years ago.

Eye wood post MI Lee Moore pics, but pitchers make the ‘65 look 10# heavier.😜

As for starting over…

I started with getting my engine reinstalled so I could drive it ASAP for summer.

Checked/changed fluids
Inspected and bled brakes
cleaned out the carburetor internally due to varnish plugging up ports
flushed/cleaned steel gas lines and replaced all rubber fuel lines
Lubricated suspension and drive shaft u-joints

That was best therapy for me too.

I plan to be at the Bash too.
Drive your Kia if ya hafta.😁
You’ll enjoy it and meet some wonderful people too.

Last edited by Nos681 (9/06/2024 10:43 PM)

Not sure I have much advice on starting over or not, but I can definitely understand life knocking the wind out of your sails for one reason or another.    My stuff I just let sit.   For a good while I couldn't bear to look at it or even be in the garage.   I just shut it down.   I did continue to lurk here, and Daze forum, but I didn't really contribute much.   I started slow.  Went to a car cruise here and there, trying to get "the love" back.   Then started thinking about projects and ideas, that kind of helps light a fire.   Then a former classmate who has a couple of classic cars told me.   "They wait for you."   Not really 100% sure what that meant, but I do know when I went into my shop for the first time in about three years, it was just as I left it, waiting for me.   It took a few trips and trys to be in there for more than a few minutes without breaking down and crying, but slowly I just started going down there more and more.   I admit, it aint the same, but as time goes on it does seem to get a bit easier.   I started changing our driver cars oil and small maintenance again.   There are days when I want to sell it all off, and there are days when I want to dig in.   Start with a small pet project.

Hope that helps

Edit:  it did help to go to a bash and talk with old friends and such.

Last edited by Greg B (9/07/2024 6:17 AM)

Greg B wrote:

Then a former classmate who has a couple of classic cars told me. "They wait for you." Not really 100% sure what that meant, but I do know when I went into my shop for the first time in about three years, it was just as I left it, waiting for me.

It was a couple months short of a decade.  I actually lost the car, it was in the garage at my old house.  When I went back it wasn't there. Somebody moved it from there to my parents farm shop behind their house and nobody told me. Shortly after my divorce finalized the farm got sold out and the family has been, uh, estranged since then.

My dad has age related dementia and that was a big part of why I got divorced.  I couldn't be alone with him for more than a decade because he'd physically fight with me.  But my dad is in a memory care facility now and I'm the only one who has been in it for many years.  So I guess that's good.  Most of the equipment is still there but it's also not ready for prime time.  

Been going to the shop one day a week for a month and, um, "cleaning".  All of my car was on that cart and somehow there's parts everywhere in that shop.  So I've been cleaning trying to find the headliner bows so I can get ready to put the brand new 15 year old window glass in.  After I extract all the seed from the mice.  After I get the rest of the archeological dig finished.  Figure it'll take me another month to get the shop ship shape and the parts sorted.

Not sure how many of you suffer from HSS (Horizontal Surface Syndrome) but I counted 17 flat surfaces stacked high wide and handsome of just....junk. But now I can get it cleaned up and keep it that way.

I guess it's like eating an elephant.  Start at one end, go to the other, be slow.  Be persistant and just keep chipping away.

It's nice to be back around, yall.  I'll see you in Bakersfield!

Last edited by CraigMBA (9/07/2024 11:32 AM)

CraigMBA wrote:

  I'll see you in Bakersfield!

Wow, what an ordeal.

Outstanding, glad you'll make it.
 

50vert wrote:

If you can make it happen, consider staying for a night or three with the group ... you'll be glad you did.
I look forward to meeting you. See ya soon.

 
Ditto that. A lot of info is covered at the Thursday night board meeting.

Great to hear from you Craig, and I'm glad you're back.  Do come to the Bash and DO come for the three days if you can.  You really don't want to miss the Thursday and Friday night "Board Meetings"  normally held in Glen's 65 5.0's room.  See ya there!
 

Last edited by Bullet Bob (9/25/2024 7:02 AM)