I would also like to wish you the best in your retirement, and thank you for answering my phone calls thru the years. Especially when you helped me with changing my chain sprockets and installing the hold down kit.
best regards Benny
Well, Mr Maury. The very best to you. Retirement(which literally,thankfully, youāre not doing) is a beautiful thing. Enjoy doing what you love, on your own property & space. You helped me a couple of years ago. We were about to do an I.R.S. on a 69
F.H.C. That had 2 cracks that we previously welded in the cage. My friend who was going to rebuild it W/me as a helper said letās go his friend who builds kit Cobras.He must have a cage. He did. But to me it looked a bit different. I asked the forum if there is a difference between the Series 1 & Series 2 cage. No answers! Someone stated: āDick Maury will knowā. You answered the question. It would require cutting to fit the brakes. Full stop for usā¦ We returned the Series 1 cage & brought the original to a fabricator who builds my friendās race cars. Now stronger than original. You saved us many hours of work to end W/an inferior product. Knowledge is the key, sir. And you have it & share it. Thanks. Love your Corvette, too. I sold a Nasau Blue ā66 conv. W/a 327/350 h.p. to buy the E-type. Wish I could have kept both!
With greatest respect, thank you for helping all of us.
Michael Caro
Ct.
Dick, thank you for all the help over the years and I am very pleased that you will continue on in this hobby if only in a limited capacity.
Kindest regards,
LLynn
Well dang, Iām glad I was able to get your help in rebuilding my water pump. It was a real pleasure to speak with you during the process. Cheers!
I was speaking to a brake specialist the other day, he is 76 and came out of retirement to help his son out, as its apparently hard to find good workers, and āthings have never been busierā
Too much fuel and oil in your blood to be sitting around on a couch.
Again, congratulations and thank you for all the help and advice.
Good luck with your new chapter in life.
Hey Dick, quit advertisingā¦Your client waiting list is already too longā¦ Just kidding of course. Hate to see Coventry West closing their doors, but very grateful that I live a short drive from your house. For people who have not had the chance to see Dickās new garage, its very impressiveā¦
Good for you, Dick. Retirement is all about freedom, but only if it means shedding some commitments and responsibilities that tie you down. May you enjoy a long and happy one.
Congratulations Dick on your retirement. Like everyone here Iām happy for you that you will be free to do more of what you want to and less of what you must do, but sorry to hear that Iāll have to find someone else to rebuild my tired engine. Enjoy retirement - youāve earned it!
Oh, ugh, errr, thanks, Dick.
Itās getting really hard for me to climb the walls sideways at my age. But now I see it.
LLoyd
Youāve got to live somewhere you arenāt afraid to die.
Ukrainian poet Serhiy Zhadan
Dick, so glad I had you rebuild my engine. Now that you are joining us āretiredā guys it will be hard to find a reliable place to replace CW. Best wishes to you and your family, now it is on to being a āhobbiestā instead of a commercial mechanic. Our hobby of keeping these vintage cars on the road is a noble cause but sometimes frustrating, glad we will still have you as a resource for advice.
Dick, best wishes to you in your new endeavors.
Doesnāt sound like much of a retirement to me
Doing what you like doing, when you want to do it. Sounds massively perfect to me.
Yes, of courseā¦you left out the āwinkā when you quoted meā¦
Whoops, totally missed that.
My two cents! Congratulations Dick. And I, maybe more than some, am happy youāre keeping your own garage open. If it wasnāt for Dick and his wealth of knowledge and things Jaguar, Iād be floundering on my own project. Dick has kept me bolstered for the past two years. Often ending with a sage sentiment such as, āā¦well, yeah,ā when I state something totally obvious. The very best to you Dick, the worldās a better place with you in it.
Scot
Love the tree! Nice touch.
Congrats Dick and thanks for all your help during the restoration of my car. I canāt count the number of times and the ways you helped me out. You are truly a gentleman and a scholar.
Congratulations Dick! Thank you for the many times you freely gave advice and how you handled issues. Integrity is a wonderful thing. You have it.
Always sad to see one of the good guys leave. Ultimately there will be naves and mountbanks scrambling for fewer and fewer positions of prominence. I fear for the future of our hobby, and or the paucity of information freely available though Iāll probably not be around to see the shake out.
In the meantime enjoy āretirementā. It is a freeing and exciting time in which you get to do all that stuff youāve been putting off.