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Thinking about taking the new Checker to the Penna rally in February. What could possibly go wrong? The heater works, but I still need to repair the defrost duct. And it has antifreeze. And good tread on the tires.
Thinking about taking the new Checker to the Penna rally in February. What could possibly go wrong? The heater works, but I still need to repair the defrost duct. And it has antifreeze. And good tread on the tires.
awesome!!!
signed up and ready to go...should I dress warm?
Forecast is like _your_ Wednesday 29th forecast - just not as pretty.
hey, it's cold up here!
Yes - I think a little colder than last week's forecast.
I regret not going to this rally, but we're down a car for the foreseeable future (likely until the end of the year, if not beyond) and I have to drive the "spare" car in the meantime. So, no road trips at all. (The spare can do it, but I can't afford to be down another car if something happens on a rally or a road trip.)
I still have one dead car in the driveway I'd considered for a Rust Belter, but honestly it's gotten so rusty that it is nearly impossible to work on, and I'd be happy if someone would just come take it for free and get it out of my life. And I'm over the idea of hoping to "revive" it. We also may have to relocate, so I need it out of my driveway anyway.
I still have one dead car in the driveway I'd considered for a Rust Belter, but honestly it's gotten so rusty that it is nearly impossible to work on, and I'd be happy if someone would just come take it for free and get it out of my life. And I'm over the idea of hoping to "revive" it. We also may have to relocate, so I need it out of my driveway anyway.
What is this mythical beast? (asking for a friend)
I also asked, via email; no reply yet. I don't think it's mythical; they've mentioned _something_ (or two) several times now. I remembered the user adding in - with gusto - on rally threads.
But it might be that rare, epic ride that would amaze and confound everybody, and that they want to spring on the community at a rally.
So if it is, I'll say, "props to the one who took the initiative to source or save it" are important, because without that, there wouldn't be anything for the next person to show off as finished.
or it's just a rusty old hondacar or something.
I don't remember! getting too old for my brain cells to function.
or it's just a rusty old hondacar or something.
Yep. You know me too well. Bought new in 1997, 290k miles and many years of road salt (rust), but I parked it for a transmission problem. Seems like the parking pawl gets stuck, and the selector cable is now stretched out (and unobtainium unless scouring junkyards). I thought of using it in a rally but am not throwing good money after bad. It's just an eyesore now.
...just a rusty old hondacar or something.
Hey! I, for one, still think my Triumph Acclaim made a perfectly adequate Lemons Rally car despite being the very definition of "hondacar or something." Kinda rusty in places, too.
Hey! I, for one, still think my Triumph Acclaim made a perfectly adequate Lemons Rally car despite being the very definition of "hondacar or something." Kinda rusty in places, too.
This rust not only ate through the rear quarters (as they often do) and beneath the battery tray, along with a few other parts, many of the fasteners have rusted to the point where breaking/cutting them off seems to be the only way they let go. Even if I throw all the chemicals at them, and all the heat, they prefer to leave the chat by snapping off. My last attempt at removing the alternator resulted in snapping off the adjustment bolt, in a spot that isn't exactly accessible.
I'm kind of over it, in other words.
I'm off to change yet another ball joint on #EarlBurnerCivic this afternoon, in fact. Fortunately for being 21 years old, everything's still workable.
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