Another Mopar Off My Bucket List - Barracuda Fastback
We made it through another stormy night. It wasn't as bad as the night before but we did have lots of thunder, lightning, high winds, and heavy rain.
Spencer decided to head back to Iowa early today but before he did we called Starlight Motors for status on the Roadrunner. - Still getting nowhere fast on it. My son decided to set up some shop time in Des Moines to have the work finished and we'll take the car there if it's not finished by the time he comes back next month.
What really pisses me off is that these guys were arrogant as hell when I ran into them last year at the St. Paul, Nebraska car show. They had a couple of really nice 'Cudas there running FAST efi systems and claimed to be experts that would fix any problems we had in no time. Their attitude was that any idiot should be able to do it. We didn't make the decision to take the car to them because we thought they were nice guys. We took it to them because they were into Mopars and their claimed expertise. I guess I should have avoided them just on the a-hole rating scale alone. Maybe they're just another example of the arrogance of E-body owners?
Before I could get started on the Charger today that guy with the Chevelle showed up looking for help installing a new trunk lock. He had me order him one last week and it didn't fit the way the original one had. It took a bit of tweaking but I got it in for him and he's a happy camper again.
While working on the trunk lock the FedEx truck stopped and left off a couple of boxes. The polyurethane transmission mount and a can of inner frame rail coating arrived.
In an effort to keep myself enthused on the funnycar I ordered a used book off of eBay. I saved about half the cost of buying it new and it'll probably spend a lot of time in the shop so I wasn't concerned with having a pristine copy. I'm hoping it'll have some photos that will help me design the interior work that's to come.
We made it through another stormy night. It wasn't as bad as the night before but we did have lots of thunder, lightning, high winds, and heavy rain.
Spencer decided to head back to Iowa early today but before he did we called Starlight Motors for status on the Roadrunner. - Still getting nowhere fast on it. My son decided to set up some shop time in Des Moines to have the work finished and we'll take the car there if it's not finished by the time he comes back next month.
What really pisses me off is that these guys were arrogant as hell when I ran into them last year at the St. Paul, Nebraska car show. They had a couple of really nice 'Cudas there running FAST efi systems and claimed to be experts that would fix any problems we had in no time. Their attitude was that any idiot should be able to do it. We didn't make the decision to take the car to them because we thought they were nice guys. We took it to them because they were into Mopars and their claimed expertise. I guess I should have avoided them just on the a-hole rating scale alone. Maybe they're just another example of the arrogance of E-body owners?
Before I could get started on the Charger today that guy with the Chevelle showed up looking for help installing a new trunk lock. He had me order him one last week and it didn't fit the way the original one had. It took a bit of tweaking but I got it in for him and he's a happy camper again.
While working on the trunk lock the FedEx truck stopped and left off a couple of boxes. The polyurethane transmission mount and a can of inner frame rail coating arrived.
In an effort to keep myself enthused on the funnycar I ordered a used book off of eBay. I saved about half the cost of buying it new and it'll probably spend a lot of time in the shop so I wasn't concerned with having a pristine copy. I'm hoping it'll have some photos that will help me design the interior work that's to come.