1. Buy more tools that you probably won’t need (e.g.
www.harborfreight.com)
2. Finish up every conceivable home maintenance task *before* your car/kit arrives
3. Make sure every other “hobby” car you have is running, or at least, can roll around
4. Get your vanity plates ordered
5. Scout up a copy of the getting harder to find book “Blue and Orange” and think about how you will scrape up the cash to add your next street car (an RF??? Gulf 917 of course!) to your collection/obsession
6. Figure out how to justify the additional cost of an aluminum Dart block (as opposed to dieting)
7. Wash and wax the minivan (it will be a while before the next time it sees a hose)
8. If you ordered a RHD car for the US, have someone drive you around and see what it’s going to be like trying to pass a truck on a two lane highway - (this was pointed out to me by an RHD Jaguar owning friend of mine)
9. Line up your insurance with Grundy, Hagarty etc. because otherwise your State Farm Agent will be planning a few more rounds of golf each week on you when he hears about your new “exotic”.
10. Motivate yourself to figure out how to use the new features in Photoshop CS (like the vanishing point filter) and make a 120 x 80 pixel avatar of your car in only 3 hours.
11. [Bonus] Buy and race more GT40 slot cars to help pass the time if 1-10 are already done, and don’t make racing noises unless you are sure you are alone.
As of yesterday everything except #4 was done and that showed up in the mail today. Now what?
Regards,
Al
Linear Mode
