Swingin' '73 Dart

Some days your the windshield, some days your the Bug. Today, I was a bug.

Ok, 3 hours of sleep didn't help. No reason for it, I just had insomnia last night. I took my wife to work so I could go pick up the wheels from the powder coater. When I grabbed them, I thought the powder looked really thin in the middle, but figured it would be inside the tire so I could spray some paint over it, but it bothered me.

I'd called on some tires on Saturday, but was feeling a little to sickly to run out and look at them. It's a Bow-Tie store that has a bunch of BFG take-off's, and the owner told me he'd be out of town today, but someone at the shop could probably help. Uhh, not. The guy at the shop hadn't a clue, and told me the owner will be back tomorrow of Wednesday. I went by a 'used' tire shop close to home, and they had all junk. (Well, at least nothing *I* wanted). On the way home, I stopped at the Auto-parts to pick up a windsheild trim removal tool, and got a call from a guy on Craig's list that had some tires. We made agreed to meet later in the afternoon.

At home, I looked at the wheels closer. Holy fsk! there are big voids in the powder on the FRONT of the wheels at the joint between the center and rim. I'm talking 1/2" wide stripe of bare steel. I called the powder coater, and to his credit he said bring them back and was very nice when I did. So I ran them back across town and dropped them off. I'm hoping when I get them back later in the week the powder covers better, because the color looks really good.

So, to recap, I drove about 50 miles this morning, and had nothing to show for it. This afternoon a buddy wanted to borrow my neighbors motorcycle ramp, so between running out to look at the other tires, I took it to him. The good news were the tires - almost brand new pair of BFG Radial T/A's for the front in 215-70R15 for $40. That's $40 for the PAIR. He had them on the front of his '32 Ford street rod for ~200 miles but didn't like the looks. They still have nubs in the center of the tread! I wish his rears would have fit (also $40/pair) but I don't think I can stuff 275-60R15's under the stock wheel wells! Those things are huge!

Not much else done today, but I did put the new wiper blades on and washed the wind shield inside and out. Oh, and I put the wiper fluid jug back on (with it's new pump) and it works! Yay!

Pictures again soon.