heart attack

[JBaum]

I spent some days on a 1931 Cadillac Phaeton that was taken to a big show in Florida. A Phaeton is a convertible but doesn't have roll up side windows. The top has side curtains that hang down and snap on with windows in them. Imagine a Jeep soft top, but on a bigger car.
The owner called me from Florida to thank me for working on his car. He got 100 out of 100 points and best of show. I went through 30 pages of rules to make sure everything was correct. This was the kind of show that if you have pebbles stuck in the tire treads, they'll take off points. I even used a Sharpie pen to cover up the white UPC barcode that was printed on the fan belt. They didn't have barcodes in 1931, so you can't have them now on a restoration.

From that show he was invited to take the car to another big show that was by invitation only, and got 100 points there too. He's a very happy owner.

He just bought another Cadillac convertible, one of five made with a V16, and one of the two known to still exist from that year. He told me Friday he was going to need my services, and hoped I had some time for him. The old cloth covered wires are getting to be in bad shape, so I'll be making a new wiring harness for it and putting that in. Everything gets soldered with solder terminations (not the blue plastic crimp connectors) using correctly colored new cloth covered wire.

[DARIVS ARCHITECTVS]

Yikes.

[LtShaffer]

Sorry to hear about your heart attack. My father in-law just had a quadruple bypass a few months ago and is doing great after rehab. I pray you will do the same.