"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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I've been mightly tempted to do another car - only this time I want to
do a custom. It took me four years to do the International from start
to finish although I drove it at the two year mark while working on
it.

Something unusual this time. High tech electronics, smoothed out
exterior - modern stuff. No big engines this time - maybe a four
cylinder with some goodies.

Oh well....

I was downsizing with the car thing. I sold all of them except the '67 GTO
and the Porsche. (still use the little Ranger PU as the daily driver). But
the '63 Galaxie convertible was something that I've been looking for, for a
long time. When this one became available, I couldn't resist. It's not a
matching numbers show car like the Goat, but it runs and drives perfect.
The previous owner had sunk quite a few bucks into it with all new front end
components, new top and boot, rebuilt 390 and transmission, etc. It's a
flashback thing to my youth, I guess.

I have the Porsche at the dealership being serviced and having some work
done on the transmission. It "pops" out of gear if you are de-accelerating
in second gear. Turns out there was an assembly problem with the second
gear syncro in some of the 911 transmissions and Porsche will fix it under
warranty. That car is amazing. Fun, fast but still gets reasonably decent
fuel mileage at 19-20 mpg if driven somewhat sanely. I am going to stop
babying it and start driving it more often.

Eisboch