Kirjahaku

After 10 years, and some 10,000 miles of driving a 40+ year old car up and down the West Coast of Florida to hundreds of car shows, I have written a book about this hobby/passion of mine. This hobby saved my life. I went from being miserably retired, to miserably trying to restore a classic car. But I lived through it, barely at times, and was able to eventually get my car into National Magazines, and to display it at National Car Shows. This is the story of my INSANE JOURNEY through the world of classic cars. It BEGINS with my uneventful, boring retirement. It QUICKLY LEAPS FORWARD into the madness of my buying a classic car. Then RAPIDLY SPIRALS DOWNWARD in my attempt to restore that car. It GLARINGLY HIGHLIGHTS my head-on collisions with the classic car community and its residents, while PAINFULLY DETAILING my ongoing trials as I travel this never-ending bumpy road. It is a mostly true story line heavily spiced with exaggeration, satire and humor.

World Travel in the 80's and 90's In the 1980's there was no Global Community. There were mostly independent countries. Each very strongly nationalistic and with their own specific languages and culture. The United State was much the same, as few of us traveled outside of our country. Like the rest of the countries in the world, the only culture we knew was the one we were raised in. My travels as a businessman thrust me into the heart of these countries and their cultures. The differences in cultures from country to country varied significantly. In many cases the clash in cultures was quite a shock, especially to a novice American traveler. Which is why I refer to my travels as being "Lost in the World". During the years I traveled internationally, it was rare to have American businessmen in many of the countries I worked. There was no "Google", no "Wikipedia" or "Internet" to tell me what to expect, how to behave or what the consequences of getting in trouble could be in these countries. I tried to walk a straight line, but the world kept throwing me curves.