[Keith Seymore]

Originally Posted by Deadhead

One day as a little kid my buddy was hanging out with his uncle, who was working on a tractor. He asked him, "Jay, how did you learn to fix stuff like this?" Jay says, "I taught myself." Curious - my buddy says, "How do you know you will be able to do it?" Jay comes back with, "Well, a man made it didn't he? If a man made it, I can fix it."

x2. My dad always said that, or a variation of it:

"..if a man made it the first time, then I can make one too".

And he would. Dual snorkel air cleaners, deep sump oil pans, custom rocker covers, converting short nose water pumps to long, widening his own steel wheels, narrowing a frame, putting an Olds fuel injection intake on a Pontiac makin his own head gaskets, he made the first Holley power valve plugs and installed the first Helicoils; many a day I spent watching him make a fixture of some kind to get 'er done...

K