Haven’t posted about the project for a while. A long nasty winter slowed things up, but I seem to be working by the rule of three. Everything I think should take a day takes about three.

So the story of my life is usually take on a 2 hour project, and two days and three trips for additional parts or tools and I am done. So today I took on another “two hour project” changing the lower rear control arms on my IS300, hoping for the best.

I read in Car and Driver about Hyundai’s $50 test drive program and figured “why the hell not”. So you go on the website and tell them what you want to drive and they immediately send about 4 emails saying how excited they are to have you come and do a test drive.

Blowing up my feeds today is this Mazda RX7 based endurance racer.

3 Degrees out and only slightly warmer in my now heated, but not yet sealed up and insulated shop, work on the 97 Ranger continues. The bolts for the rusted on brackets have to attach to the frame, there is no back access because of the gas tank. I considered taking off the tank, but of course I had just filled it,…

So my son came home and said the 97 Ranger which I am letting him drive was making a funny noise. I look and there is a major list on the left rear. Having been under the truck before I know the leaf spring mount or bracket is pretty rusty. Investigation show that in fact the bracket has collapsed.

So I am browsing the interwebs, looking for I don’t know what, and I stumble upon this picture. My brother, his 2nd car, painted in an unlikely BRE paint scheme in all its mid seventies glory.

This is the Supra we really want:

So somehow in the building of garage Majal a built in, hard wired clock in the kitchen stopped working.

I see this car most everyday. Back when I was looking at cars for my son about six years ago, the cheapest running, driving cars I could find were often ZX2s, still hanging on, but roached out within an inch of their lives.

I see this car most everyday. Back when I was looking at cars for my son about six years ago, the cheapest running, driving cars I could find were often ZX2s, still hanging on, but roached out within an inch of their lives.