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That rings true with me.  In 1997 I met Kirk at Vintage Speedsters and he said, it sure would be nice if all these people could have a place to ask questions about how to build their speedsters.  We started a mail list. Who would have known this website would have been the result just a couple years later. That same weekend I met Greg @VSpyder He had the shop right next door to Kirk and Vintage Speedsters.  I'm pretty sure Greg, who is now Vintage Motors Cars, and I were just out of high school.
-=theron

Thanks again Alan. Working perfectly. The rotating part of the adjuster did not want to fit in the seat indent too well to do that but a little relief with a hole saw and shazam! In the middle and free as a bird. 

So true about this site. It is so great to be able to run in, throw a question out, and get a wealth of information back. And then, it becomes part of the library. Just priceless. 

This poor car. I bought it in pieces on Ebay back in 2013 from a guy in NJ with a custom Mustang business. He ended the auction early telling me "If you take it out of my shop in 4 days it's yours for $3k. It belonged to his body man who was going through a divorce. Still recall coming through Newark at 5:00 with the trailer "WTF am I doing?" My son helped me with it when he was a teenager. Then I went through a divorce that was long and bloody. So the poor car sat again for a few years. Kid went off to college. Finally squared things away and started a new life with a wonderful little Italian gal from Providence. Bought a house with a 2 car garage -one for her, one for the speedster. As is typical for me, I then brought a 914 home. To which the little woman said "You can't touch the 914 until finish the speedster." So like a 58-year-old teenager I sassed and complained but did what she said (Italian tempers...). So thanks everyone for the years of advice and help! For the record, I did, and do, sneak out to the 914 whenever she goes shopping. And when UPS shows up with a box I get "What's that?" "Oh, um, it's for the tractor, not the 914, for the tractor..." 

@Theron posted:

That rings true with me.  In 1997 I met Kirk at Vintage Speedsters and he said, it sure would be nice if all these people could have a place to ask questions about how to build their speedsters.  We started a mail list. Who would have known this website would have been the result just a couple years later. That same weekend I met Greg @VSpyder He had the shop right next door to Kirk and Vintage Speedsters.  I'm pretty sure Greg, who is now Vintage Motors Cars, and I were just out of high school.
-=theron

I've been here since 2000, and linked over from the old (Kirk Duncan) Vintage Speedster's website (the one you designed, @Theron) when I was still in the "dream state"-- looking around for a cool car I could cruise around with my wife or kids.

That's 20 years of my life wasted on you knuckleheads. I hope we're all still here 20 years from now. It's a pleasure to have rid withcha'. 

Jeff wrote:  "The rotating part of the adjuster did not want to fit in the seat indent too well to do that but a little relief with a hole saw and shazam! In the middle and free as a bird. "

That seems to be the case with just about everything having to do with a CMC.  I started building mine around 1995 (already had the body for two years by then) and when I went to assemble something, nothing fit - I mean nothing.  Everything had to be futzed with, so yours is no different.  My original seat glides were from a 914, came as part of a rigid sub-frame with the 914 seats I bought and worked pretty well.  Even reclined slightly!  

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