After over eight years of being a "corner car" and being bumped by
paying jobs, my little 63 got insurance and a tag yesterday.  I took
it for a short ride and will be working the bugs out for a while.
This car has twenty thousand miles on it, it had seveteen when I got
it.  What started out as a quick spruce up ended up getting silly...
The paint was original but shot and then a door took a hit from a
delivery truck, so that made me decide to paint the thing.  The first
paint job went horribly wrong as the shop went bust and the paint
started falling off soon after I grabbed it out of the shop as the
vultures circled the place.  An old friend was starting up a shop
after years of doing it part time stripped it to metal and although I
asked for (and paid for) only a "driver" paint job it looks great.
Upholstery, headliner, etc..etc...etc... I don't even want to know how
much time or $$ are in this little car.  A 6 cylinder..so the V8 snobs
will turn their noses up at it but so what.  I don't have the hood on
it yet as it needs a touch up from being moved around for years and
getting dinged somehow... recon I won't drive it in the rain until I
get the hood back..<G>
Studebaker George