Re: [Amc-list] Charity Projects In General

["RetroRalph" <retroralph@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think that everyone who has had part in this project felt a great 
sense of relief when it finally got moved on to the next place.   The 
projects start out in an organization with an abundance of the best of 
intentions and by the time the third project work date comes along 
people seem to find something better to do with their time.

First you think you have a car that is good enought to do the project 
with and then when you get things apart and take a good look you seem to 
find more and more problems that need to be resolved.  Many times you 
find previous bodywork that wasn't properly done.  Did I say many times? 
I mean most times...  So a guy figures he can handle what he was told 
needed to be done but then he later sees that he can't do a proper job 
for what actually the job ends up being...

Yup, a lot of us have been there.  What the heck... we do what we can. 
If we have the money and can afford to have somebody work on the project 
and do the meticulous work and get paid for it then maybe you can get a 
near perfect restoration.  But even then it's an iffy proposition.

We can generally come up with something that looks great but too often 
it isn't as tight and tough as when it was near new.   On a club project 
we had some years ago we thought we had a decent Javelin to restore and 
raffle and we wound up with one member supplying another base body so we 
"re-bodied"  that sucker and discarded the original frame and body 
damaged carcass.  So we did finally end up with a straight frame and 
body to work with.   It was another educational experience.  It was sure 
a nice '70 Javelin with a 232 and 3 speed stick.  Plain Jane and Snow 
white and economical driver, and nice...  We had pictures in a couple of 
our newsletters Oct 1999 and Jan 2000 (see below).

http://clubs.hemmings.com/clubsites/classicamx/jan2000/jan2000.htm 
Several pictures of our raffle Javelin.
http://clubs.hemmings.com/clubsites/classicamx/oct1999/oct1999.htm 
Several more pictures...
http://clubs.hemmings.com/clubsites/classicamx/index.htm   Classic AMX 
Club of Portland Page.

I suppose we were lucky to finally have something to raffle off.  It 
wound up working several people nearly to death.  So after 9 years, many 
thanks to Dan and Bobbi Hoops and Jeff and Vicki Duval.  What a project 
that was.
______________________________________________________________
Ralph Ausmann  -  Hillsboro, OR - > http://mysite.verizon.net/res79g4m


----- Original Message ----- 
From: Mr. AMC
To: amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 12:34 PM
Subject: [Amc-list] Charity Projects In General

A lot of people open their mouth for a some sort of charity project and 
when it comes time to deliver they some excuse. Granted their are real 
legitimate excuses but some offers are just to get the peoples 
name/shops name in the lime light. Such as in my wife's church's, and my 
former car club. Sorry for the downer but I have been there more times 
than I care to remember. I have watched this project for years due to 
one thing or another I was unable to help and did not offer any kind of 
assistance I could not back up. My hat is off to you who has seen this 
project so far.
"Doc" 


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