{"id":1237,"date":"2006-12-31T22:32:22","date_gmt":"2007-01-01T03:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=1237"},"modified":"2007-01-03T11:59:27","modified_gmt":"2007-01-03T16:59:27","slug":"old-car-restoration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=1237","title":{"rendered":"Old car restoration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steve H is toying with the idea of restoring an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hogonice.com\/2006\/12\/ragtop_dreams_shattered.html\">old car<\/a>. Here&#8217;s my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.acmewebpages.com\/midi\/great.wav\">feeling on the subject.  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now, I&#8217;ve restored cars, and been around people who have restored them, and I&#8217;ve done a great deal of the work myself- electrical, mechanical, bodywork, chrome, you name it I&#8217;ve done it. I considered starting a shop at one time, even. I&#8217;ve alternately learned by trial and error, or had good mentors, and I can safely say, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.acmewebpages.com\/midi\/great.wav\">I hope steve does it.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been around a lot of people with average mechanical ability who believe it is possible to easily learn all the skills necesary to restore a motor vehicle of any kind. With the writing skills Steve has, the meltdown he will inevitably have while trying to master all the skills necesary- or even find reputable repair shops to do the work for him, is going to be a whole new book- one that will eclipse everything he&#8217;s written so far. I&#8217;ve done my best to discourage him from doing this, knowing full well that his gargantuan ego will prevent him taking advice from a mere reader- no matter how intelligent that advice is. I intend to continue to disparage him, and am sure others will do so, just because it&#8217;s going to be SUCH good reading. My God, folks, the blogosphere has never been this promising. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> The nerve I touched- whoohoo! <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not gonna be reading Steve for a while, I&#8217;m pretty disinterested in the ravings of a brat, but I remember back when I knew everything too, and it&#8217;s SUCH fun to watch someone get educated. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve H is toying with the idea of restoring an old car. Here&#8217;s my feeling on the subject. Now, I&#8217;ve restored cars, and been around people who have restored them, and I&#8217;ve done a great deal of the work myself- electrical, mechanical, bodywork, chrome, you name it I&#8217;ve done it. I considered starting a shop [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}