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Thu, 20 May 2004

It only took seven months

Got my toy car back today, after seven months of waiting while various workshops up and down the east coast farted about failing to resolve a slight miss at over 6500 rpm. It has been claimed that all is “fixed” but I’ll have to wait another week until I get it on the track at Morgan Park next Thursday morning to be convinced. If it doesn’t perform up to expectations after costing me almost $4k to get it “fixed”, I’ll be a bit put out—but I’m thinking positively for now and have every expectation that it will just fly. It has been so long coming that I don’t think I’ll sleep properly tonight …