Time for a ground up restoration?
Most of us start out life with a showroom perfect body...no dings, no rust...zero miles on the odometer. We are brought into the shop for frequent check-ups and our owner (parents) make sure we are fed the proper fuels, kept on the road at proper speeds and put away clean each night.
As adults we may become too busy to give ourselves the care our first owners gave us.
As the years pass and our perfect bodies begins to take on miles, the maintenance may slide and we begin to run down.
It must be the fuel! We think.
We start seeking out new fuels to keep our sporty little cars moving thru the hazards that present themselves along the road of life.
Beer, Chips, Ben and Jerrys, pizza, Reeses pieces, (put your trigger food here.)
Soon our sleek little cars begin to adjust...by adding weight.
Before we know it our original frames are supporting the bodies of a Hummer. Performance slows and we figure we need more fuel to keep moving. Ultimately things begin to break down. We run to our favorite repairman for diagnosis. The news isn't good; obesity, diabetes, heart disease, bad knees, bad hips.......unless we mount a ground up restoration a tow to the local junkyard may be our last ride.
Don't end up in the junkyard! First, if you want to be a Hummer then you have to reinforce your frame and fuel your body with premium gas. Work your muscles, build your bones....!
If you want to reclaim that sleek sports car body (I like to think of mine as a pink T-Bird convertible) you will have to do the same. The best "ground up restoration" I have found is the Body for Life program.
No bondo here.... the new paint job looks good...and I can still preform when those hazards present themselves.
As adults we may become too busy to give ourselves the care our first owners gave us.
As the years pass and our perfect bodies begins to take on miles, the maintenance may slide and we begin to run down.
It must be the fuel! We think.
We start seeking out new fuels to keep our sporty little cars moving thru the hazards that present themselves along the road of life.
Beer, Chips, Ben and Jerrys, pizza, Reeses pieces, (put your trigger food here.)
Soon our sleek little cars begin to adjust...by adding weight.
Before we know it our original frames are supporting the bodies of a Hummer. Performance slows and we figure we need more fuel to keep moving. Ultimately things begin to break down. We run to our favorite repairman for diagnosis. The news isn't good; obesity, diabetes, heart disease, bad knees, bad hips.......unless we mount a ground up restoration a tow to the local junkyard may be our last ride.
Don't end up in the junkyard! First, if you want to be a Hummer then you have to reinforce your frame and fuel your body with premium gas. Work your muscles, build your bones....!
If you want to reclaim that sleek sports car body (I like to think of mine as a pink T-Bird convertible) you will have to do the same. The best "ground up restoration" I have found is the Body for Life program.
No bondo here.... the new paint job looks good...and I can still preform when those hazards present themselves.
posted by M. | 11:21 AM
1 Comments:
... I just love it when a woman talks about cars!
... You've got some nice metaphors happening here in this post.
... And thanks for your words of encouragement left on my BLOG.
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