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Re: [TEMPERATURE TANTRUMS]

To: Wester S Potter <wspotter@jps.net>
Subject: Re: [TEMPERATURE TANTRUMS]
From: DOUG ODOM <popms@thegrid.net>
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 14:27:37 -0800
Wes, You are right about asking the right questions. I have a 70'X30'
(agricultural building) on my acre and a quarter. No way would they let
me put up a shop that size. 
                                Doug Odom

Wester S Potter wrote:
> 
> Dick,
> My brother-in-law built a new home on a couple of acres of property.  He
> wanted to build an attached garage with space for four cars.  The zoning
> people said no!  He asked if he could build a 30x40 shop at the back of the
> property ... same answer.  Then he asked if he could build a barn ... it's
> horse country, no limit on the size of pole barn he could put up so he
> started thinking of a 40x40 barn ... ended up with a 40x60 because he sold
> off some of the property.  The only livestock that will see the inside of
> that barn art the two cats that keep the field mice population under
> control.  It's fully insulated, two roll up overhead doors, gas heat, he
> paints cars in a visqueen "spray booth" in the middle of the building, has
> five cars under various stages of completion, two are his, one he is
> building for a friend, one belongs to his son and one to a friend who used
> to have a body shop and is a lot of help on straightening things.  The envy
> of every gear head he knows.  Some people are lucky!  Others just have to be
> able to ask the right questions.
> ----------
> > From: "Jim Dincau" <jdincau@qnet.com>
> > To: "Dick J" <lsr_man@yahoo.com>, "Phillip Landry"
> <saltracer@netscape.net>,<FastmetalBDF@aol.com>, "Race Car"
> <land-speed@autox.team.net>
> > Subject: Re: [TEMPERATURE   TANTRUMS]
> > Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 10:13:04 -0800
> >
> >Amen brother.
> >Jim in Palmdale, who's wife said upon
> >seeing the shop outline scratched in the dirt
> > "500 sq. ft? that's not enough,  you better make it a 1000"
> >
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: Dick J <lsr_man@yahoo.com>
> >To: Phillip Landry <saltracer@netscape.net>; <FastmetalBDF@aol.com>; Race
> >Car <land-speed@autox.team.net>
> >Sent: Monday, January 24, 2000 6:20 AM
> >Subject: Re: [TEMPERATURE TANTRUMS]
> >
> >
> >> Yep.  Sure 'nuff.  That arctic air arived.  It
> >> was only 33 when I got up this morning, but it
> >> was f0 by the time I got to work.  That's a whole
> >> lot colder than the 71 yesterday.  Sorry 'bout
> >> that.
> >> I spent all weekend cutting, notching and welding
> >> tubes together.  Most of the time was spent
> >> squatting down with the welder in hand.  This
> >> gettin' old crap is for the birds.  Today my legs
> >> feel like they're coming out from under me.  And
> >> they HURT too!
> >> My wife came in the shop last night and checked
> >> out the progress on the roadster - -eh, rather,
> >> pile of roadster parts - -she asked "how much $$$
> >> it was going to take to get that thing on the
> >> track?  Fear clutched my heart and I hesitated
> >> too long, and she said take a wild guess.  I took
> >> the guess, she figured I'd need twice that, then
> >> she said I'd better start working longer hours on
> >> it or it wouldn't be ready in time.  Sure is nice
> >> to have the full support of the crew chief and banker.
> >>
> >> =====
> >> .............................
> >> ..........Dick J.............
> >> ......(In East Texas)........
> >> ....FX/GMR  SC/P250-2........
> >> .....Shelby  427 Cobra.......
> >> .Hemis and Flatheads Forever.
> >> .............................
> >> Do You Yahoo!?
> >>
> >
> >

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