Newbie from NY
Welcome to the site! Glad to have you. Do you own an a body?
I don't but I know of a few people on here that own them and I've been watching the plans come into thought and hoping to be able to see the work unfold.
The vehicle I have at the moment is just an 'ol '03 Dodge Dakota, manual everything.
Has some work to be done to her. The former owner (my close friend's mother) slid on black ice and hit the front driver side last winter. Her son parked it, which I'm thinking that it was parked shortly after everything was replaced: shocks, struts, rotors, pads, tires, etc. Suspension's handling like a champ going down the road.
But, I've parked it until the damage can be fixed. Front headlight is shattered, grill/grill cover is completely unsavable, front fender has to me taken off, new radiator is in the works as well, and much more!
Damned thing broke down on me heading home about a week ago, give or take a day... Was pushing her a bit to get up a small hill, went to check my mirrors to see behind me, looked down at my temperature gauge just in time to see it go from all the way cold straight to hot without any hesitation at all...
I swear, I would've missed it if I blinked.
Looked up from the gauge to realize that I could not see! The whole front of the truck was engulfed in smoke all the way around. Threw my 4-ways on, mad as hell of course, slammed the driver side door, walked around to the other side to grab a cigarette before I blew up, slammed that door, cussed up a storm and had a friend tow it home for me.
I wanted to walk out the door with the baseball bat in hand to finish it off and to put the truck out of it's misery. But the more I thought about it, the more I realized that I will fix this truck and beat it into submission and have her running by the end of summer. (Inspection runs out in October, really don't have much of a choice do I? Lol)
But it's a determination I've set to get her up and running with the help of a great friend along the way...
*Cough Cough*
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Thanks for the welcome! :)
