The camaro is the same year as I am, a '68 I bought it when I was 18 and it sat in my mom's garage until I moved 20 months ago. I finally started buying parts for it post-bomb. When I bought it it was only a shell of a body, no doors, no front fenders or hood or front end, no engine or interior or rear suspension. The guy I bought it from had started to build it into a race car and got married, had kids and didn't have time or money to work on it. I was single and loved working on cars. Never had the time/money/place all at the same time to work on it over the years, especially with my own family and kids. Now I finally have a place, my own shop, now I have the time, just lacking the money, trying to decided how much I'm willing to go into debt to work on it. I bought most of the sheet metal for it, that was over $3000 and that was only a drop in the bucket of what I'll need. I've always tried to not spend money I don't have, so I don't want to go overboard on this car, but I do want to work on it with S13 and S15 and I'm tired of living scared, might just have to take a calculated risk, decided what I'm comfortable with and go for it...
No contact from my wife today until I sent her a pic from my phone of her parrot outside in the fresh air and she called me and said "what is that picture of, is the bird dead..." I told her no, the bird was outside and I walked by and was petting it and decided to send you a picture of it. She said she couldn't see the picture very well and it looked like the bird was laying on the bottom of the cage. Then she talked about S13 a bit, him being bored, I told her I was talking my mom overnight to a resort town about 2 hrs away and I tried to get the kids to go and they didn't want to. I told her I don't feel sorry for S13, he has plenty that he can do, he can't expect to be entertained. She said she had to go, that she was about to pee her pants, I said thanks for calling and she told me she'd talk to me later.
After work I tried to finish fixing the riding lawn mower with S15, made some progress, drilled out the 2 broken off bolts and reassembled the parts, then found out that part wasn't the problem, another one was, tried to disassemble that and broke off 3 more bolts! So the lawn isn't getting mowed today, didn't have time to drill 3 more bolts out before I needed to leave with my mom on our overnight trip. Most of my stuff from Vegas was still in my suitcase, so I threw a couple more things in and zipped it up. Drove about 2 hrs to the town we're staying at, had a nice chinese dinner over looking the lake as the sun went down. Check into our hotel, I was able to get a 2 room suite so my mom has her own room. We swam a bit in the pool and spa until it closed, then talked for 3 hrs about the IC sessions and about what all I'd gone thru during my parents divorce and about all that I've been going thru in my 17 yrs of marriage and post-bomb. Finally at 2am it was bed time, tomorrow we'll have breakfast, maybe swim a bit more, then drive home, I need to finish up some work when I get back and she flys home tomorrow night.
My wife tried to call me while I was in the pool with my mom. When I came back to the room, I sent her a txt msg with "Goodnight. No baseball lesson today? Sleep tight" and she replied after a few mins with "Who was the first black player in the minor leagues?" and I replied with "Jack Robinson?" and she replied with "Ya. Nite" and I sent "Nite."
I bought it when I was 18 and it sat in my mom's garage until I moved 20 months ago. I finally started buying parts for it post-bomb. When I bought it it was only a shell of a body, no doors, no front fenders or hood or front end, no engine or interior or rear suspension. The guy I bought it from had started to build it into a race car and got married, had kids and didn't have time or money to work on it. I was single and loved working on cars. Never had the time/money/place all at the same time to work on it over the years, especially with my own family and kids. Now I finally have a place, my own shop, now I have the time, just lacking the money, trying to decided how much I'm willing to go into debt to work on it. I bought most of the sheet metal for it, that was over $3000 and that was only a drop in the bucket of what I'll need. I've always tried to not spend money I don't have, so I don't want to go overboard on this car, but I do want to work on it with S13 and S15 and I'm tired of living scared, might just have to take a calculated risk, decided what I'm comfortable with and go for it...