My Story:
fell in love with classic cars when I was just a
kid. I loved the
sleek lines, and raw power under the hood. Every time I saw one,
I knew that I had to own a classic car. My first car of choice
was a 1963 Corvette with the split tail window. Upon further
investigation, $20,000 for a non-running Corvette that still needed to
be restored was not quite in my budget. I turned my focus to a
car with similar lines, just as much class, and one tenth of the price,
the Ford Mustang. I bought my first Mustang, a 1964-1/2, in April
of 2000, spent the next 8 months "restoring it” and it was my daily
driver until it went back under the knife for a Jaguar IRS and a real
restoration. I acquired my second Mustang, a 1966, when I
married my wife in June of 2001. She came with the car; I mean
the car came with her. We no longer own this car but it
served us well for many years. Just after we got married, my wife
and I decided to start a family. In August of 2001, I
bought a 1962 Galaxie 500 4-door to provide us with a much-needed
family car. I have gone from having little-to-no experience in
car restoration, to having quite a bit. I am self-taught but
cannot take credit for much of my car restoration knowledge because it
has come from books, websites, and forums. I love cars and I love
learning. Yes, I am still quite fond of the 63 Corvette, but I
love the cars I have.
As I said above much of my knowledge came from the help of the great
people online. I learned a lot by doing but there was so much
more that I learned from the help of others. Because of that help
the primary goal and function of DazeCars is to pay it forward by
helping people. I have acquired a vast Mustang expertise and a
knack for retrofitting modern parts and or parts from a totally
different make or model in to classic Fords. I make these
modifications to my own cars, because I like the challenge but also in
theory it makes my cars "better." Once I have completed a project
I offer up all the information, in the form of tech articles. These are
free of charge to anyone who wants to read them.
In short, I set up DazeCars for the purpose of encouraging educating
and helping people. As a side effect of my website people started
contacting me because they didn't have the skills, tools and/or time to
make the parts laid out in my tech articles themselves and asked if
they could pay me to make said parts. After a wile it made sense
to create a web page so that people could see their options. I do
not have a web site because I own a business I own a business because I
have a web site. In other words I am not a typical
business. I say that because I am not in it to make money, yes it
is nice that there is $$ coming in but that is not the purpose of my
web site. If I quit selling product tomorrow the only change to
my website would be the removal of my "for sale page"
