Tuesday, February 17, 2009

2 Steps Forward, 1 Step Back

Sometimes things just don't go the way they are supposed to; the wood on the sides have developed stress crack along the joints; last night the dash lights wouldn't work; the low beam headlights were about as bright as a burned out match; then I overfilled the gas tank and ran gas out the overflow causing an "Al Gore" reportable incident; and I had 25 emails about basically nothing. Other than that it was a pretty good day.
Now back to the real world, we are wiring the power windows and lo and behold nothing seems to work. The connectors that came with the kit are too big, won't make good contact and basically suck but alas things could be worse. Here is one of the worse things that could happen.
This car was advertised to cruise smoothly at 80 mph.
Not quite sure if that was true. As you can see the U-bolts holding the rear end in the car were not even through the nuts as well as the lugs for the wheels were too short. Maybe he meant safe at 8 MPH.

2 comments:

  1. Beats the opposite idea (One step forward two steps backward). At least you're making progress. Will you drive this to the Cincinnati area on your migratory return later this year?

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  2. It will be in the BIG city this summer, Coming To A Street Near You: The Willys

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