[Payton King]

I appreciate all of your kind words and encouragemt that I have received after posting my pics. It is nice when others appreciate what you are doing and the effort it takes along with emotional highs and lows that goes along with any project.

Right now I am at an emotional low. It does not help that my youngest son gave me a cold and the medicine always makes me pissy. Or that I got to meet with my accountant yesterday and the government is wanting another big chunck of hard earned money. I guess the kicker to all of this is I have been fighting with a guy in Long Island to send a short block and heads for almost a year. His shop has gone under and he owes me a lot of others parts and or money. To make a long story short he finally sent my short block, no heads, and it is worthless. So now it looks like I am going to take about a $4000 loss on the whole deal and be back to square one on the engine.

I work on cars because I love the hobby. I have done it my entire life, but for the last 6 months it has not been very fun. Between the motor and really pushing to get the car finished, it has become one of the bigger stressors in my life. I am at the point where I need to decide whether to push on and complete the car, take a break, or sell it the way it sits and move on.