I can relate. Try finding a set of early latches for your soft top...
Andrew
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From: Daniel Neuman [mailto:dneuman@stars.sfsu.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 1999 3:33 PM
To: datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net
Subject: Gotta have a sense of humor...
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> Hello All,
> Tom's sense of humor comment got me to thinking about last night..
> My girlfriend and I were working on the car.. I was wrapping my header
with insulation tape and she was cleaning up the wiring harness... It was
warm in my garage so I was wearing shorts.. After about ten minutes my hands
and legs started to ITCH considerably... Gee I thought, I bet this header
tape is probably made with fiber glass and now I have thousands of
microscopic splinters on my hands/legs.. Sure would be nice if the
directions mentioned that you should be covered up......gotta have a sense
of humor.
> After that I went to check up on Irene and noticed that she had done
a good job of cleaning up the connectors and cleaning up the tape wrapped
wiring bundles.. I notice a smudge on the left front fender.... I look
closer... HOLY SH*T that's not a smudge it's a series of DEEP squiggly
scratches in the paint where 'someone' had been resting her full weight on
the fender and sliding around while she was working........gotta have a
sense of humor..ARRRRRRGHHHH!!!
> Or how about how I can clean-prep two seemingly similar pieces but
when I paint one (with the expensive POR-15) it wont stick but the other
piece it coats as advertised....gotta have a sense of humor...
> Or how I went to just about every hardware store in the city looking
for a 4.5 inch metric bolt but NONE of them carried it???
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> I swear I never realized what a pain in the caboose this little
resto project was going to be.... Sometimes I can just KICK myself...'Sure
it will only take a weekend to completely redo my rear end..' yea right...
> Can you tell I am just chock full of roadster aggravation..
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> Daniel Neuman
> Dept. of Radiation Oncology
> 533 Parnassus Ave. Rm. U368P
> University of California
> San Francisco, CA 94143-0226
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> phone: 415-502-5177
> fax: 415-502-5175
> email: neuman@radonc17.ucsf.edu
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