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Re: New Subject ( wasn't anything)

To: "Mike Sloane" <msloane@att.net>, <shop-talk@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: New Subject ( wasn't anything)
From: "Elton Clark" <lotus.tony@airmail.net>
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 17:49:21 -0500
Mike Sloan wrote:

> Unlike most of the other list members, my "shop" is a 24x48 two story barn
that
> I built in the 1970's, and it is used mostly for working on or restoring
my
> older farm tractors plus the usual rural homeowner stuff.
>
> But the important thing is that, like Keith, I spend many weekend hours
out
> there, working with my hands (and even my mind sometimes) and getting away
from
> the rest of the week's problems and difficulties. I think if it weren't
for the
> shop and my old machinery, I would be going to therapists and taking a lot
of
> pills.
>
> By the way, the reasons that I stay with this list (in addition to the
antique
> tractor lists) is that there are many similarities between older tractors
and
> British cars of the '50s and '60s, especially the electrical systems.
Since I
> used to operate a "foreign car" repair shop in that time, I can sometime
provide
> some tips based on my experiences from AC Aceca's to Zenith carburetors.

You'll find several people that combine an interest in Brit cars and antique
tractors; I'm another one:

5 Lotus road and race cars
1927 Caterpillar Fifteen

But, I don't thinks it's the similarity that attracts as much as the
disparities!
(my tractor weighs more than all 5 Lotus cars combined)

Tony_______________________@Sherman.Texas

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