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Does your Wife or Girlfriend help you with your cars?

Kern Dog

Kern Dog

Life is full of turns. Build your car to handle.
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Sometimes you need help with the project. Bleeding brakes, carrying seats...whatever.
Who is lucky enough to have a friendly female helper in the garage?
Mary has helped me bleed brakes, run the engine during break-in, install seats, windshields, hoods, trunklids...I am a fortunate man.
Oil changes? No. Tire rotation? Nah. Bodywork and sanding? Nope.
That is okay though. Anytime I need help with something that requires 2 people, she is willing to help. That is a real treasure.
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Really? I was hoping to hear other success stories!
 
Kern Dog said:
Sometimes you need help with the project. Bleeding brakes, carrying seats...whatever.
Who is lucky enough to have a friendly female helper in the garage?
Mary has helped me bleed brakes, run the engine during break-in, install seats, windshields, hoods, trunklids...I am a fortunate man.
Oil changes? No. Tire rotation? Nah. Bodywork and sanding? Nope.
That is okay though. Anytime I need help with something that requires 2 people, she is willing to help. That is a real treasure.
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She's a keeper :thumbsup:
 
My wife has tolerated and financially supported my last 3 builds....so I have to say a very grateful YES.

Without her assistance, and support in keeping the family occupied, I would have had not much time to play cars and trucks.

She also told me to put the foot to the floor on a club cruise many years ago in the GTX. :D

Here we are at the Huka Falls (near Taupo) during a run in 2009
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Mary holds the top speed in our 2015 Challenger......126 mph.
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This photo was taken 3 mph before she topped out.
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My lovely wife doesn’t even want to ride in the X. She’s scared of it. But on the other hand she also lets me do what ever I need to on it. She’s a definite keeper too.
 
Hell yeah! My wife has been in on OUR 1970 Coronet project since I obtained it 25 years ago.
When we were still engaged I asked her about building a car. She was from a MOPAR family and enthusiastically agreed. Her brother had a ‘70 Bee. While hunting moose in 1994 I came across a ‘70 Coronet hulk in a yard. I obtained it, and her and I began gathering parts. We spent many weekends and part of every holiday searching parts. Then life and a family got in the way. The car sat inside but untouched for over twenty years.
Two years ago, January 04 2017, to be exact, we were enjoying morning coffee on a beautiful, clear sunny day. The phone rang, and wife answered it. I saw her expression change to sorrow. It was the hospital. She had cancer. Turned out to be stage three uterine cancer. February 14 they operated, then followed chemo then radiation. While she was recuperating I had to care for her, but not necessarily hover over her 24/7 so I started working on the car again. I’ve accomplished a great deal on it. I can see the end.
Almost exactly a year later they were done with my wife.She has had three follow up check ups, and is cancer free.
 
Damn..I was nervously reading that and afraid it wasn't going to end well. Son of a bitch...I'm happy she is doing well!
Cancer scares the heck out of me.
 
My wifey of over 53 years has always been there to help whenever I ask. Helps to clean up the car for car shows. Due to my low vision, she sets the torque wrench , fetches sockets and wrenches, finds the correct feeler gauge, looks for misplaced tools, Goes to most all car shows with me, and much more. Never complains about money spent on the car as long as it doesn't interfere with other expenses. I can't understand how a guy could put up with a woman who hates his car............MO
 
Cornpatch MO said:
I can't understand how a guy could put up with a woman who hates his car............MO
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Hmmm...
My first wife would say: You love your car more than you love me.
That was not true...But it got me thinking.
The car was always willing.
It was more comfortable to be with.
They weighed about the same.
The car produced fewer emissions.
 
Been married almost forty years, my wife doesn't have a lot to do with the cars. But she'll lend a hand if I need it, and she's been hinting lately that it would be great if I got my road runner finished because she'd look cool taking it to work. :) And way back when we were first married, she bought me the 440 that sits in it now.
 
Mine reminds me of when the car shows are! And has helped bleed brakes, fetch tools, know what I mean (tool wise) even tho I may not say it right. Will get me out of the garage when it's too hot out or I've been in there way too long. Also knows when to keep distance when things are not going right. And has alerted me to noises I'm too deaf to hear.
 
Mine used to be helpful in the garage, body work interior eng didn't really matter . But since little baby showed up I rarely get out there myself let alone both of us ! Now my wife's cuz she has been helping alot in the garage (mostly when her truck brakes but hey help is help!)
 
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Maria has helped me throughout my builds. On the Coronet she was on one end when the dash came out and again when we reinstalled. She rewired the circular pin connectors on the PCB board while I called out the wire colors. Had her crank over the engine with a breaker bar while I removed and replaced the flex plate bolts. She loves helping out, almost as much as driving!
 
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