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oh hellsfuckyea like rear ending a 06 S class benz going to work. luckily, my honda is slightly lower at the front than the rear of the benz, so I kinda just tucked under him. 5mph bump left the benz slightly scratched while the hood is tweaked on the honda. Looks like i'll have to repair the damage in class, and put the tina on hold. Or, should I just drive the honda the way it is and concentrate on the tina. decisions decsions.

Ah well, great way to start off in the morning is all i can say. Good thing I'm taking an autobody class though!

So I'm reading....

I'm reading Jeremy Clarkson's car review on the Sunday Post online and here's what he has to say:

"My worry is that if car makers don’t start putting a bit of soul and flair and engineering panache back into their cars — and I’m excluding Alfa Romeo and Citroën from this, because they do — pretty soon, motoring will cease to be something that’s fun. "

That's why cars from pre-1973ish are so damn great. Everything after seems to have lost something.

The man should be king.

Cortina Cortina Cortina

So after working on the tina for the past few weekends, I got the motor fired up with the help of my grandpa. She sounds healthy, but with tons of blow-by, the rings may be on it's last legs. Now I can't decide on what motor to go on next. It's either the 302 sitting at Johns place, a Ford Zetec, or a 4AG. But just as the motor started, went to the rear to readjust the brake shoes, only to have one of the liners fall off. So my test drve of the tina will have to wait another week or so.

Body wise, i've found more and more rust, nothing that's too major, but a pain in the ass to repair. The two pics are from class, got the bonnet straightened out, had to use some filler as the whole middle section was too much of a mess. As long as I keep it as a skim coat, I think all should be fine. Second pic is of the boot lid, was picking at a corner and that's what I exposed! I guess next class I'm gonna cut the rot out and make a new patch panel for that corner.

Gotta remember to buy me some weld thru primer.