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Re: Curious. Posted by patquin [Email]  (#52) [Profile/Gallery]
(more from patquin) on Fri, 24 Oct 2003 15:58:21
In Reply to: Curious., Albert, Wed, 22 Oct 2003 12:21:12 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
I'm 49 and on my 4th V4 Sonett. The first one purchased was my first car at age 18. It had been totalled (middle car in a multi-car pile-up), and a friend of my dad's learned how to do fiberglas repair by bringing the car back to life. I was looking for a car, and after once around the block I was hooked! Sold the car to help pay for community college; the new owner promptly totalled the car a week later for good. I regretted the sale immediately, and bought a rusted-out Sonett listed in the local paper--the car lasted me through my college years in New England. During those "lean years" I earned how to change a clutch overnight--'cause that was how long I had free use of a heated garage one weekend! The car finally rusted out despite taking a welding class to learn to keep it up. Twenty-five years later, after my daughter left for college this year, I started looking around for a "project Sonett". Found one on this site, only 5 miles away! Had it towed home, but it was in horrific shape--all the hydraulics and most of the sills and floorpan were missing. Took that car down to little pieces (learned a lot!), then bought a really nice yellow V4 from a fellow in Des Moines. Apparently the car had lived a while in Hawaii, and had gone through restoration #1 a few years ago in Ohio--I've been tinkering with it ever since. Definitely got my project car now! My daughter can't wait to come home from college to try it out--I'm thinking real hard about that. I'm a wind turbine engineer at a Dept. of Energy lab--the fiberglas guys at work loved looking at the car when I had them over for supper.
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