The Shed (Post # 02)

Things got busy after moving the Alfatross to New Mexico.  I lost my momentum on the restoration project but I did manage to build a workshop expressly for working on it and other cars accumulated along the way.  To be clear, I am not a collector.  I just can't bear to part with a car that I've had more than 5 years.  In fact, I've still got that old 1973 VW transporter that I used to tow the Alfatross around for the first 20 years. 

Easing the Alfatross into its new home in Santa Fe.

Now I finally had the place to finish restoration of the Alfatross--but I still didn't have the time!  There was no end of distractions, of other ways to spend time and money.  Until 2012.  Two thousand twelve was The Year of Resolutions for my wife and I.  The year that we finally consolidated all our stuff  that had been spread out from North Carolina to Texas to New Mexico in one place.  It was time to concentrate on the Alfatross. 


Day One in "The Shed"

In December 2012 I was contacted by two different parties within days of each other who wanted to buy my car.  Both  needed a Zagato-bodied Alfa Romeo 1900 to add to their collections and both had been looking for such a car for more than a year.  It slowly dawned on me that I had the car, the workshop, the time, and now buyers.  Could 2013 be the year I free myself at last of the Alfatross?  That revelation was the genesis of this blog.  Starting January 1, 2013,  I am going to do my best to finish the restoration this year and document my 44 years of its ownership over the next 52 weeks.