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document.navmenu1.addMenuItem("Buyer's Guide", "location='../buyingpages/buyersguidepages/buyingguide.html'");
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document.navmenu1.bgColor = "#555555";
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document.navmenu8.addMenuItem("Screwdrivers", "location='../workshopandtoolspages/toolspages/screwdrivers.htm'");
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Introduction
At the summer's end of 2003 I thought that I would record my experiences since September, 2001 of buying, importing and rebuilding my Healey, and share that with the wider public through this site.
I had initially envisaged a monthly report highlighting the successes (and otherwise) of my work. Needless to say, like so much of my work on the Healey these best laid intentions have been optimistic. Under the circumstances I will aim instead to provide quarterly reports. This allows for a more sensible amount of work to be done (I hope) and a much easier schedule of reportage. And still, I hope, provide a public incentive to actually DO things, even when the garage is cold, the dog needs his walks and the wife is similarly growling.
To that end I've produced two "historic" reports on the previous years and the seeming lack of progress. Why? Well, it is far too easy to start with a great burst of enthusiasm and find that bad weather, and poor planning can stall things. Others may take heart from knowing that such situations may be retrievable. The almost unending hiatus in progress was more visible than real- parts and tools and parts and references and parts and ideas were being seized upon and acquired. So all the while that the car just seemed to be sitting there, rusting in peace, there was a regular stream of activity percolating behind the scenes (or so I've told everyone, particularly those of a spousal or familial character that commented upon the "rusting in peace" character of the project. Perhaps, they believed it... though doubtful.) Nevertheless, at summer's end, 2003 most of the necessary background work was complete, the requisite skills developed or learned and/or the memory racked to recall others, the absolutely essential facilities had finally been built and made habitable, and sufficient parts accumulated (and the odd few new tools smuggled past the gate-keepers, or bought in by these guardians of the communal purse as birthday/ Christmas/ reconciliation presents) for a re-newed effort to commence. I trust the information in these Journals is useful. If not useful, then amusing. If neither useful or amusing, then a forewarning....
I've been producing these reports quarterly since the end of 2003, but for the sake of brevity those earlier ones have been consolidated into annual reports, and only the current year is presented in its original quarterly format.
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Copyright© 2005 James M. Wilson All rights reserved.