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Hi to all the Guys just want to say - Have finished the Engine rebuild and all looks good.
Started it up today and she ran like a dream!!
just want to thank you guys for all your help and support Regards Bill.

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William,

There is nothing like the thrill one gets from hearing an engine that one has rebuilt start and run. Nothing, well there is one thing that can bring the same level of excitement...

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Mighty fine. Savor every bit of the garage journey. When you're driving, enjoying the assembled car, you'll be glad you went the extra mile in every detail, Dr. Stocker, and may you keep her stock.

JW's soooo right about hearing that rebuilt motor come to life. When the mechanic, an ex-sprint car builder from the old days, told me he finished my '40 120's engine back in '75 ("....hardly a man is now alive, who remembers that famous day and year..." -- apologies to Longfellow), i rushed to his shop. The freshly painted 282 was perched between stout wooden blocks, a copper coil like a moonshiner's still coming from a Maxwell House coffee can full of gas atop his office bookcase. I still remember that unmuffled roar.