Ok, you know, maybe this isn't much of a thing for most people.
I've had my 1979 Calais for most of about 10 years. Wait, is it 11 years?
In that time, I may have put about 1000 miles on the car. My own fault. Time and no money, money and no time, or, more often, no money or time. On the plus side, that means there's still only 47,500 original miles on the car.
Well, ok, this summer, I vowed to at least drive it regularly, even if the engine-swap is perpetually on hold. So I recharged the AC a bit (it's still running R12), and started driving it.
Huh, well, it does ping, but interestingly, fresh gas seems to have reduced that somewhat (though why the hell a 7.5:1 compression motor should have any excuse to ping is beyond me).
I figured I might drive it to work one day. The tires are old and mismatched, but in the past month I've put 100 miles on them, and since the car's always been in a garage, they're not dry-rotting.
So, today it was actually nice and cool - I'd've been able to drive without using the AC (the compressor clatters quite a bit, so I guess I need to add oil). Only it was heavily overcast. I figured it would rain, and I wasn't going to drive my baby in the rain.
Nope, heavy clouds, but I'm only NOW finding out, late in the day, that there was almost NO chance of rain whatsoever.
Dammit, missed opportunity. May not seem like much, but I really want to drive it twice a month, or maybe even once a week, if possible. I neglected it for too long...
I've had my 1979 Calais for most of about 10 years. Wait, is it 11 years?
In that time, I may have put about 1000 miles on the car. My own fault. Time and no money, money and no time, or, more often, no money or time. On the plus side, that means there's still only 47,500 original miles on the car.
Well, ok, this summer, I vowed to at least drive it regularly, even if the engine-swap is perpetually on hold. So I recharged the AC a bit (it's still running R12), and started driving it.
Huh, well, it does ping, but interestingly, fresh gas seems to have reduced that somewhat (though why the hell a 7.5:1 compression motor should have any excuse to ping is beyond me).
I figured I might drive it to work one day. The tires are old and mismatched, but in the past month I've put 100 miles on them, and since the car's always been in a garage, they're not dry-rotting.
So, today it was actually nice and cool - I'd've been able to drive without using the AC (the compressor clatters quite a bit, so I guess I need to add oil). Only it was heavily overcast. I figured it would rain, and I wasn't going to drive my baby in the rain.
Nope, heavy clouds, but I'm only NOW finding out, late in the day, that there was almost NO chance of rain whatsoever.
Dammit, missed opportunity. May not seem like much, but I really want to drive it twice a month, or maybe even once a week, if possible. I neglected it for too long...
