Friends that you had to let go.

As I have aged, I have wanted to know gearheads that know more than I do simply so I can learn more.
Through my 20s to 40s, most guys I knew weren't as wild about cars as I was so they didn't have the same skill level.
I know a guy that had a car with a stroked 340 he built...and had to pull it out 3 times to fix stuff that was done poorly and led to failures.
In one trip to my place, he stopped 3 times for three different roadside repairs including a crank pulley falling off, a shifter that came loose and a power steering hose that shifted and got cut by the pulley.
I don't talk to him much anymore...he sold the car. He is too broke to buy another classic and most of what we had in common was car stuff.