Now a little history on my car... My friend Stevie who has a history of wrecking cars bought this 1986 Gold Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera from this old priest with about 50,000 miles on it. He then drove it for a while before hitting a tree with it and crunching the front right corner. Jon, Brent, myself, and Stevie got a 1989 Red Olds of the same model and took the front panels off as well as cutting the front right corner off both cars (frame) and welding the good one onto the Gold car - so if you pop the hood you can see a Gold frame become a red frame hahaha. Well after a while Stevie sold the car to Jon for 1 case of cheep beer and a steak dinner. Jon sold the car to his friend Ernie for 2 cases of cheap beer, and Ernie sold the car to me for 2 cases of cheap beer last summer.
Since then the car has gotten chinese snow tires, a new steering rack ($80), a new master cylinder ($30), and a few other things. The lower sides are painted with cheap black truck bed liner to prevent rust, and there is an AZ motorcycle license plate bondo'd to the passenger front door on the bottom covering a rust hole. There is a toggle switch on the dash to turn on the cooling fan. She's.... a classic. =p
So the other day when I realized she's gonna stay with me a while longer, I changed the oil, oil filer, and spark plugs. The car flexed slightly on jack stands and now the hood won't close completely.
Solution? Pad Lock. 0.o
It would have been better spent in the middle but the front nose is fiberglass and I was worried about it pulling loose. So its currently on the passenger side. I have taken it out on the highway for a field test and discovered that it needs a second padlock on the drivers side which will be a tomorrow or later today project. I put down a strip of gorilla tape where I was going to mount to save the paint and prevent rust from the screw holes.
The Car by the way is named "Rudy" due to it's Red Nose.
Another quick project of the day was the steering wheel.
You see a few days ago the rubber nice little fake leather looking cover simply fell off. On the bright side the horn works now all the time. But besides being ugly (which I don't really care about) that little metal strip rattles. Now the instant thought is remove the strip, but you see... thats what activates the horn when you push on it.
So we come back to my standard fix for anything... Gorilla tape. It doesn't look too bad, it has fixed the rattle, and it gave me a way to put the Olds badge back on.
And of course the horn still works!
In other news for the few gay people who actually scan this.. (shuddup Brent, I know you aren't one of them) here is someone delightful to look at, and he's 19!
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Mom just came in and grilled me about my doctors and my pain levels and my medications, and all of that, kinda shot a solid hole in my good mood which wasn't all that strong to begin with. *sigh*
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