As you can see here, the car is in Pat's trailer, headed for the paint shop. This picture was taken in March. Ever's Body shop, in New Haven, will do the finish sanding, prepping, and painting.
One of the great things about this was that Ever's wouldn't give me a date for when the car would be done!
At first, I didn't like this at all. My life seems constantly driven by deadlines, tasks, and appointments. I have to commit to people and projects every day - why couldn't they?
And then it became clear to me. The only thing I would be happy with is a beautiful finish - something I could enter into the judging and hope to do well, maybe even win.
There was no sense in holding the paint shop to a set date when, in order to meet the date, they might have to skip an area, sand something once instead of twice, and hurry to get the car back to me. What's the point in that? The car's 72 years old and I've waited my whole adult life to get one. Ever's knew me better than I knew myself when it came to this car.
In the 3 months that followed, Evers ended up completely block sanding the entire car THREE times. The more they looked, the more they found things that were good, but not great. I'm trying to get the pictures they took online so you can see them as well.
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