Grizz's Redneck Express 1966 Chevy Short Fleetside RESTO-GO!

[Grizz1963]

Once the clouds disappeared and the skies warmed up a bit today, I went to the garage, moved the van into the sun.

Grabbed some stuff.

Prepared.



Clamped in place.

Multiple clamps because there are curves on two planes.

Left for 5 hours and removed the clamps so that I could close the doors before dark and,damp out back.






Result.

I will make up a small filler piece for the top,as well tomorrow.



Happy with this result.

Astro kissing Caddy butt.




Will try to get a better pic for perspective of their respective sizes.

Both are a bit deceptive.

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[Grizz1963]

You know those days when the weather conspires against you, no picnic, no BBQ, no car time?


https://youtube.com/shorts/P7SZ1HKNy...3vJ8kERKzuFtRV


Sometimes you just need to squeeze a bit of time out of them when nobody is looking.

Bottle of G3 compound and an old rag, joined by a knackered T-shirt.

Not exactly “Valet Heaven” and the purists will be sucking on their plastic refinish gel by now.

Still, a few minutes can change things, and add motivation and a feeling of accomplishment.

The whole Caddy is 21 years old, with loads of giffer style damage, careless scratches, tiny dings, chipped paint, rust in expected places. All these can be corrected with a bit of patience.

So I give you exhibit number one: @dozer my younger brother would walk away from a car like this “because it’s rusted” He hates rust.

Half the problem is the rusty water staining on the surrounding paint. After all….. it took 21 years to get like this.



So a few minutes of concentrated fingering gets you this result.



Other side, rear wheel arch, must be the plastic arch liner that chafed away at the paint, with added road grit and no cleaning.



And afterwards, just a bit better. If you now walk up to it as a potential buyer…… you can see the extent of the rust but it looks tidier.



Remember the previous life this van lived was as a wheelchair accessible vehicle.

Now you rarely see Macho Formula One drivers, or off Roaders and Burly Builders driving these cars, more often, irate women in long floral dresses and knitted button up jumpers with untidy hair, or their male counterparts wearing ugly black shoes. Now before you attack me….. THINK ABOUT IT. Looking after any form of disabled person takes a load more effort than shouting “Johnny get your school bag, did you brush your teeth, put down the Gameboy/whatever, the bus is here, you’re going to be late for school” all in one extended sentence. So clothing, hair, your own life becomes secondary to the person you are caring for. Included in this is many sleepless nights, weekends between work weeks at a day job where carers don’t come because they get paid more at a local private institution, so suddenly the 48 hours you are meant to rest……. No rest because you are caring for your child/relative. I have good friends who do this every day of their lives and I can only respect them.

Washing, cleaning and doing maintenance on these become something secondary, maintenance usually covered by various motability schemes or manufacturers warranties.

The knocks, scrapes, dents and marks……

Often the result of trying to get your charge unloaded close to a buildings door, ramp or tour own home when the weather in the video above, prevails.

Just look at the amount of shameless dick heads parking in disabled spaces, or parking right up close to the rear ramps of cars, clearly marked as needing loading space. Think Stephen Hawking sized wheelchairs.

So the option of dinging and denting and scraping these cars are often forced on the drivers by society’s selfishness.


Rant over, for now.


When I bought the Caddy, this long scrape that someone had tried to clean up with a piece of 400grit sandpaper really bugged me, it had the clear coat scuffed, really badly, it also has an associated dent all the way down, and if you zoom in over the wheel arch bulge, more damage and what looks like ingrained plastic from another vehicle plus another deeper set of scrapes near the rear light.

But after previously sorting the Astro paint with a lot of effort, and hand buffing, I knew it was not impossible.

Marks are all obvious in the original for sale pics, I never took a better up close pic, but it’s obvious.



So I spent quite a bit of time on these marks, till the increasing rain stopped me outright.

I will be returning for another, more thorough and complete run at this, it should be possible to clear the paint scratches but not the dent, which I have to live with.


Better?








There is a lot to be said for just putting a bit of effort into things.


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[Grizz1963]

So we needed a fresh MOT on the van, expiry on the existing one 18 November.

So I drove down to the MOT testing station to see if this crack would be a fail.

What do you think?



Turns out, the rules have once again changed and it is not an automatic fail.

So cheekily, and optimistically I book the car/van in for a cancelled spot at 4.30, and say “See ya later” heading out to Morrisons to buy some food as I had not gone food shopping since returning from Scotland and Shropshire.

Go outside to the car park.

Brrrr, Brrrrrr. Brrrrrrr, Brrr, Brrrrr…………. Buggerrrrrrrr.

Car turns over, zero fire.

SERIOUSLY ??

So I do the usual, lock, unlock with the remote, try figure if immobiliser has died, NOPE.

Check under the hood, for any diesel dribbling out, any pipe showing a leak, the clear pipe at 3 way filter shows no bubbles.

Buggerrrrrrr.

I call @zelandeth just in case he has advice (zero blame, it is my car) luckily he pulls over in a lay-by, chats to me, talks me through the problem solving I already did, dead end. Buggerrrrrrrr.

So I try again, at which point a guy in a Japanese Garage overall comes to add his advice, opinions and double checking my checklist.

Of course we keep trying to start the basterd thing. Brrrrrrr, Brrrrrrrr, Brrrrrrr.

NOPE.

Now we are joined by two “tree surgeon” types nd their 12 year old nephew who is clearly not in school and learning the trade IYKWIM.

More advice, opinions, and a pair of knackered old pliers.

We are also joined now by a very very grubby, real mechanic…. No, a diesel mechanic named Bryan, another super nice guy, really nice.

“Do you have any quick start?”

Nope.

Deodorant?

Nope.

So mechanic no 1 disappears, while I open the scuttle to make sure nothing is under water under there.

Nope, all dry.

Buggerrrrrrr…….

Mechanic no 1 comes back from inside the test centre, toilet spray in hand.

WTF?

So we try open the air intake with said pliers which the Tree surgeons had graciously let us use.

Fail. Pliers are only good for melting down into something more useful.

So I grab an empty sample aerosol can of VW Reflex Silver that Zelandeth had tossed in the back for me to use as Sample when I went to buy paint, and said toilet refresher spray to pry open the demon clip around the air intake pipe, and mechanic no 1 pulls it off.

So back inside, ignition on, mechanic no 2 (the diesel guy) spraying toilet spray and once it almost sounds like a fire up, but no, must have imagined it.

One tin of toilet spray later, the engine compartment smells lovely, I am frowning and sweating, been there an hour already.

Buggerrrrrrr…..

One by one the witnesses disappear to do more interesting stuff, like ordering pizza over the road.

I close the door, take the key and sheepishly go indoors to cancel my 4.30pm test.

That’ll learn me to be so cocksure.

Buggerrrrrrr…….

So I go to plan C (A was me alone, B was the team) which is calling a recovery service.

Green flag take down my details, and problem explained clearly ,and say a company will contact me soon on their behalf (subcontracting at its best)
Telling them the whole story in detail, I make the fatal mistake of saying I am 1. Male, 2. Safe, 3. No dependants present.
I would regret that later, when 40 minutes later, said recovery service sub-contractor office calls me to say they understand my cars battery is flat and their guys will be there in 30 minutes.
So that will make my being there around 120 minutes.
40 minutes later, a text, stating that due to high demand their technicians are still dealing with the previous case and are delayed.
40 minutes later another text SERIOUSLY, DUE TO HIGH DEMAND technicians will be there at 5.45pm

In the mean time I had smelled other peoples pizza, asked a pair of guys sitting in the back of a Transit van with a supersized pizza each, if it was good, they confirmed this, not offering to share or anything like that.
So I walked over the street, ordered a 10” American hot.
Possibly the best, cheesiest pizza I have had in 10 years, seriously, with raw Birds Eye chillis.
They reminded me at 3.00 am just how good they were…… despite the early, rude awakening, zero regrets.
Best part of my day for sure.



So when the second delay text came through, it was about 5.45pm.

The test centre closes at 5.30 for last test.

So I was mildly pi$$€d despite the good memories of the pizza.

So I just randomly walked out and tried to start the Caddy.

Brrrrrrrrr…. Zippp, Clatterrrr Clatterrr…..; Diesel engine noises.

It’s a bloody miracle, it’s running again !!!

So I leave it running, head back indoors, into the partially closed office and reception area to say I got it started, as I get to the door, one of the testers comes walking out, we always chat when I take stuff to be tested, and he had told me the glass would not be a fail on the test.
So he says do you still want it tested?
I reply that it is now 5.50 and they need to shut shop and head home.
He replies that he will see if someone can test it for me, and that I need to just quickly go tell the receptionist to add it back to the system, and if nobody can test it, he will do it for me.

SERIOUSLY ???

So I go indoors and speak with her, citing tester no 1’s comment.

She says “No Problem, I will go see if the boss can test if for you”

FCUUUUUK NOOOOO!!

I do not want the boss testing my 21 year old, rusted box, just been dead for three hours outside, Caddy van for me.

That’s got to be a sure recipe for heartache and disaster.

Receptionist comes traipsing back in

“Yes it’s fine, the boss will test it for you, where’s the keys?”

“Inside the POO car” is my reply as the Caddy had already become known as “The Poo car” because of the registration number and its behaviour.to the test centre staff who had seen my distress all afternoon.

OK, I will tell MICHELLE.’

WTAF ??

MICHELLE ??

Seriously?

The boss, is testing my car, way out of business hours and is called Michelle.

As if my day could not get any worse.

So I expected to bearded bloke with salamander blue eye makeup, red lips, fake tits and rainbow coloured finger nails to test the Caddy.

Hello Halloween month of horrors.

Keep in mind, this Caddy had fought me even when I tried to pay for it…….

The damn demon thing hates me.


So the Caddy outside, engine running was waiting for its date with destiny, or density.





I went to pee, as I was pretty much ready to do so in my jeans.

While I was in the toilet, coincidentally, the Caddy disappeared into the test centre and up on the ramp.

With Michelle hovering underneath it, light poking up underneath it, automated testing stuff cleverly testing all the suspension parts, geometry etc.

So I asked permission from my friendly tester who had set this nightmare in motion to ask if I could take a few pics up on the ramp, for my blog, forums and YouTube channel stuff. “Let me go ask Michelle” moments later he was back and said, “Yes, Michelle said no problem, you are the last person left in the test centre” which happens to have about 9 ramps, yes, 9 lifts for testing, one of them for ultra low stuff, and also to test Pickups and high roof, long wheelbase Sprinter sized vehicles and of course motorcycles.

Some took a few pics, watching Michelle move under the Caddy.





Being the chatty guy I am, of course I walked closer up and asked permission to take a few pics underneath as well, and to inspect for myself the Rusty stuff that will need attention.

SURPRISE !!!!

Michelle, the boss, with 20 years of MOT testing experience, learned her trade from her dad, and now runs her own show, turned out to be a lovely, knowledgeable and informative lLADY.

So I took a few more pics, none of her, she is lovely.

Her comment was that, other than the welded in ramp box for the original disability use, the rest of the Caddy is in really good Nick, and has obviously been looked after, having had the right parts replaced and serviced over time.





I then left the shop floor while she carried on testing and by 6.35 the emissions test came in, PASS.

And by 6.45 I got my MOT PASS CERTIFICATE and paid for the test.

Said my thank yous to all and left.

Not switching the car off, I drove straight home and got there with the speedo showing the miles at this point.




That was a stressful day….. well, for me at least.


Massive thanks to all involved, from the tree surgeons in their rotten white Transit van, to the two mechanics and the staff at the test centre, and of course @zelandeth who took the call, and had said originally that there was no reason for it to fail a test when I bought it, and also the reason why the price was not negotiable.


Right……


Now relax…… 13 months of MOT test to use.


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[Palf70Step]

Glad to hear you got the VW inspected. Getting it started sounded like the ole 56Mack semi I drove. Once I got it started (added i had to be push started/roll down hill as starter was ...ehhhhhh.), it stayed running thru the entire day, smoking away at all my stops. One of the reasons I have sorta avoided diesels, just don't know enough about them.

[Braunschweiger]

A nice sociological study of your fellow human beings,
the Caddy lived and was the key to the world for its owner, you turn it into a handsome car again with your skillful hands,
the Caddy tests you and not all test engineers are terrible,
unfortunately we only know that thereafter.

[realvc]

What an adventure you never planned on having. It makes for a great read and your details of the team tops it off. Glad you got it started and MOT completed.
Sorry for your troubles, but just think by being delayed like that you may have missed being in a huge wreck on the way home.

[Grizz1963]

Originally Posted by Palf70Step

Glad to hear you got the VW inspected. Getting it started sounded like the ole 56Mack semi I drove. Once I got it started (added i had to be push started/roll down hill as starter was ...ehhhhhh.), it stayed running thru the entire day, smoking away at all my stops. One of the reasons I have sorta avoided diesels, just don't know enough about them.

Morning Bill.
Thank you.
Yes, over here the yearly MOT test for cars/trucks over 3 years old is a total PITA and often just a money making scheme, but then….. do you want to share the road with the likes of what you see around in Africa.
That non starting problem has not returned, but of course will stay bugging me in the back of my mind.

[Grizz1963]

Originally Posted by Braunschweiger

A nice sociological study of your fellow human beings,
the Caddy lived and was the key to the world for its owner, you turn it into a handsome car again with your skillful hands,
the Caddy tests you and not all test engineers are terrible,
unfortunately we only know that thereafter.

Hi Harald,
So much rain here.
Not sure if the weather system has reached into Germany as well.
I love the way peoples minds work. It pays my salary (Being in sales)
You are so right, these cars are the centre of many peoples universe, making them human, or able to function a lot more independently, and enlarge their worlds.
I enjoy fixing things back to a better standard than before, and the testing of my patience and abilities is like teaching what we used to call a naughty child.
When you see them become successful and focused, you feel great.

[Grizz1963]

Originally Posted by realvc

What an adventure you never planned on having. It makes for a great read and your details of the team tops it off. Glad you got it started and MOT completed.
Sorry for your troubles, but just think by being delayed like that you may have missed being in a huge wreck on the way home.

Vince, 100% on life playing that game, shifting us about, saving a life, making things turn out differently….. Trust me, I have experienced this more than once in 60 years.
As for the write up, I wish I was able to write like that all the time.
But people on forums have become so lazy, you only have to look at the volume of replies, comments on here compared to the views on this thread, so the ratio of “My reward” vs “My effort/input” makes it a discouraging thing.

MOT is a good thing, makes the car sellable, and also of course legally usable on the roads as you can insure and tax it.

[Grizz1963]

Well, the weather in the South of England SUCKS right now.

BUT….. I have not yet turned the heating on, and we are on the 2nd November.

A personal record, I think.

So I wanted to start with doing the side glass Limo Tint yesterday when there was a break in the rain.

Only to realise, you can unscrew two of the pop out windows and then do them laying flat indoors, much easier than doing it all vertically.

BUT…… you need to have either glaziers suckers, or a friend, like Mickey next door to hold the glass so it does not smash on the floor.

Any advice or ideas, in case I cannot get Mickey out in the cold?

He hates the cold, being as skinny as he is, the wind blows through him.






Today is not looking promising either.

But I am restless.

[Grizz1963]

So glass tinting 101.

Never tint outdoors
Never tint in winter
Don’t tint in the rain
Just don’t tint.

Of course rules are for losers.

So I dismantled one of the side glass windows and brought it indoors.

Carefully……..

After first duct tape securing the glass.





After putting some cushions on the floor for a soft landing.



Lino tint film applied.

Glass is concave.

Glass shape means there is too much film.

Concave means that you need to shrink it somehow,

Heat gun and a load of repeated squeegeeing action till done.



Fitted back in, in the rain.

Not ideal as the duct tape does not stick when pouring rain on glass.

Anyway, wheels bin, cushion to hold in place and a prayer that it did not fall and smash itself to bits.

Carefully climbed in the rear of the van and screwed the first two hinge screws back in.

Then the third one fought me, a lot, eventually I walked away.

Frustrated.



And for those interested, what it looks like from the inside through the limo tint, 95%

Look at the green steel cabinet in the background, both regular and tinted visible.

Before



After.



When it was raining I threw the wet cushions back into the lounge while completing the job.

Closed up the Caddy and came back indoors.

Someone liked the cushions.

Helper cat.

Dick.





Maybe tomorrow will be a better day for glass tinting.

Fingers crossed.

[Grizz1963]

Rear bumper…..?

May have found one to work on 50 miles from here in the south, near Rye.

Headed there by 9.30.



Certainly better looking than the one fitted.

Some work on this one, and then pray that the re-engineered back end accepts it once the pieces of the existing bumper are removed.







More later,

Hopefully the next glass tint if the weather improves.

Friday as well.

Double bonus.

[Braunschweiger]

This is going to be good.
We were in Rye once, with the MX5,
we wanted to go to Cornwall.
Nice little town.

[Grizz1963]

Originally Posted by Braunschweiger

This is going to be good.
We were in Rye once, with the MX5,
we wanted to go to Cornwall.
Nice little town.

I also always enjoy Rye.

Nice place, gently focussed on tourists, but not to the extent of putting their fingers in your wallet.

Today I thought of a coffee and some cake, but the guy ended up being worth two hours of my time.

So I headed home after that.

Nice MX5.

I had one once.

[realvc]

The new to you bumper will help the looks of your VW.
What about the motor bike in the pictures? Will you be able to load the bumper and leave the bike?

Your tint job looks really nice. I was wondering if you could replace the windows with metal and have a panel van? Just a thought since I'm not involved it is easy to come up ideas for others to do.

Enjoy your weekend.

[Grizz1963]

Up early-ish to get going and head down to near Rye after being offered a “complete but needing a bit of work” rear bumper after the other guy offering a broken one turned into what seems to be a bit of a w@nker.

Looked like a great day to tint windows.

But priorities.



SatNav took me down some real narrow lanes and back roads, but makes for an interesting drive again.



Also scored some large apples from Justin’s trees, and most importantly,,a VW centre cap he had found by the roadside presented me with the ring I was looking for to keep a centre cap in place.



One of the toys that go into his camper van……



Loads of clever touches.

Like these old denim jeans, recycled to form door upholstery, and also have pockets to keep various items in.




While there, we also looked at his Baywindow bus with a home grown Subaru conversion.

Filmed for @grenade specifically.

Apparently a real pleasure out on the motorway.

https://youtu.be/L3i51XC0A3Y?si=BM98q_pQR6PrEh2z


After two hours chatting about everything from Solar to fireworks and making gunpowder, I headed out home.

Saw a small shunting loco, trainspotters will correct me.



And pulled over to get a pic of a rainbow during a break in the rain.



Back home via my local village to pick up meds and some random foodstuffs.

Unloaded back home.

Chuffed.



And laid to rest.

This made me grin again.



Got to be better than this one.

If I can remove it successfully and reinstall the new one, and then clean it up and fill the dent, or soften and push the plastic out, followed by paint and colour matching.






After a coffee and sandwich it was 3.00pm and I decided that sometimes sitting doing nothing beats going out to tint glass or do something constructive, so weekend on.

Netflix and another coffee next.

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[Grizz1963]

Originally Posted by Braunschweiger

This is going to be good.
We were in Rye once, with the MX5,
we wanted to go to Cornwall.
Nice little town.

There you go.

2013.

Bit of help from Harley (RIP)

Harley supervising






Roof lining, yes, they are skulls n roses.

[Grizz1963]

Quick out of sync post.

Some of you may know that despite not going down the £1000 wheel route, I do like a wheel, and even more so of they are normal, but one can make them look a bit different.

And even more so, those wheels you find from other makes that fit your car and makes people scratch their heads in wonder.

So I was looking out for some interesting, non-standard/non-VAG wheels to maybe add to the Caddy.

Had seen some 1990’s Renault Safrane wheels that would go great in two or three colours.

Yea, I like to make work for myself.

But the offset was wrong.

Chatting to mate Matt @pegasus about wheels, he started throwing some very pretty £250.00 plus restored wheels my way, excluding tyres and shipping.

I declined all his suggestions, despite a few nice sets coming through and said I prefer ****ty sub £100.00 wheels that then ended up costing me another £200.00 to get looking good, plus tyres. The wheels and tyres on the S10 ultimately went on at £950.00 or thereabouts, completely stupid I know.

So next day Matt and I were chatting about other stuff and girls, when he again raised the subject of getting some nice wheels on the Caddy.
I said it is a scruffy 21 year old van, and I am not planning to fit expensive, super shiny wheels on it, because unlike ratlook or barnfind cars that have that distinct work look that really shows off the wheels, this thing was just not enough in either camp.
I would carry on looking to see if I could find wheels that I liked and could be acquired relatively cheaply and then either fitted directly, or cheaply, to blend more with the cars scrapes and age.

Next reply from him kinda bowled me over.

Of course I have done similar things in different ways over the years, but I struggle overall to accept kindness.



I did decline.

Then, typically a few days later I found some wheels I liked the look of on a Caddy group on FB.

Enquiring and realising they could be part of another trip, I had planned for the Sunday, I agreed with the owner to go look at the wheels he had. No price yet established.
But I told Matt I had found some cheap wheels I liked.

More in a bit.

[Grizz1963]

So agreeing to go see @sammo about some parts I decided to incorporate the trip to see the wheels I had seen on a random Caddy group post, which quickly led to a conversation with the owner
Sams thread: https://forum.retro-rides.org/thread...project-pedals

So once again, the time frame is back to front, because my 140 mile trip led me to Sams place first.

But here are the wheels, picture as seen on a chat thread.



They typically were not what I was looking for, but actually ticked a bunch of boxes automatically.

I like solid spokes, and 5 spokes are great when it comes to cleaning and maintenance. Any lace or multi spokes are beautiful, but on someone else’s car. IYKWIM.

A Messenger exchange and chat with the owner established a few things, yes they fitted, directly, yes they were for sale, yes he would sell me 5 of the 6 wheels as I had no use for a well and truly knackered one. And he seemed a nice guy. Bonus.



So when I got there, as often is the case, we spent over an hour speaking Caddy mods, issues and life in general.

When I asked how much he wanted for the wheels, his reply was £80.00 please.

So I agreed and we loaded the 5 wheels I had bought into the Focus.

The 5th black wheel is super scruffy and Kerbed to death…… but as a spare, with a silly stretched tyre, it will do.



Seller also threw in a Caddy rear floor mat, to be used once I have levelled out the rear floor and fitted a better bumper.

Cleaned up at home.



Eventually back home by 3.30pm

I had a coffee and sandwich for lunch, then went to lay stuff out to be cleaned.

At which point first @nickwheeler arrived, and followed later by Mickey next door.

So 3/4 of a bottle of Jif/Cif/Handy Andy and a couple of brushes later, we had some sparkling purchases.



Very importantly as well, four centre caps, one missing its retaining ring.

And of course a ring found yesterday when collecting the rear bumper 50 miles from here.



Butt ugleee spare. Decent tyre at least.



And the other four wheels had two good tyres and two that I needed to replace.





Pretty pleased and smug with my relatively cheap find, which would need another £160.00-ish for two new tyres, I told amongst others mate Matt @pegasus later in the evening.

Another exchange ensued, summarised in these comments.

Not always easy, but sometimes the right thing to do.




Have I mentioned before…….



Next job…….

Try on the wheels on the Caddy.

And buy tyres.

[Grizz1963]

Two days later…….

Test fit.

Of course you gotta do this.





Went for a drive to feel the front end.



Then came back, tried them on the rear.

Missing the rear shocks.



And of course all round.

16 inch alloys.

195/55 16 tyres to be ordered.






So…………


Opinions.


Yes, we all have them.


I think that unless some mind blowing wheels come along.


These can stay where they are.

[Grizz1963]

So part one of the day trip to collect the wheels was to go meet up with @sammo at his mums house.

To look at this Caddy…….





Sam had offered me a pair of Golf VR6 seats to fit into the Caddy.

Just plug and play was what he said.

Greeted by the most awesome cat…… of course.



I managed to buy the seats I had not planned on buying and also robbed the VW badge off the rear door, followed by a set of black bikini caps for the steel wheels I had at home.

Sam also gave me some door lock inners.



Loaded and headed out to Chertsy to see the alloy wheels.





Eventually back at home I got to look at these tired seats that I had bought from Sam.

Cleaned the wheels and rear floor mat.

Then headed back into the seats.







Also cleaned up the small centre caps I had bought for the steel wheels as fitted, as I did not like the flat caps.

Much better I would say.





And straight on.






Seats after all the effort……..

Yes, not too bad.





And of course approved and became the bed for the next four days 24/7

George cat scanned.




And of course all including a rant in a short clip.

https://youtu.be/ee6fKXnS0Cg?si=8-kFXS1JwooaikZj



Pan fried pork chops and vegetables tonight.

Maybe the rain will stop tomorrow.

[realvc]

Those new wheels look so much better than the wheels they replace.
Getting the rear floor mat is a huge bonus too. The deal on the spring clip is a right place at the right time deal.

I don't get out much but when I do I'll be looking for those VW vans, but they may not be many in the states.

[Grizz1963]

Originally Posted by realvc

those new wheels look so much better than the wheels they replace.
Getting the rear floor mat is a huge bonus too. The deal on the spring clip is a right place at the right time deal.

I don't get out much but when i do i'll be looking for those vw vans, but they may not be many in the states.

mexico

many in mexico

[Palf70Step]

Looking good on the caddy upgrades Rian.

[Grizz1963]

Originally Posted by Palf70Step

Looking good on the caddy upgrades Rian.

Thanks Bill.


As always, asking opinions on here is like rolling a dice or is that die.

Could this be a gear knob?

Oh, no ?

Not a ratrod or anything else super weird.



My knob is loose (like my morals I hear you say)

But I need to tighten things up.

Having a random collection of gear knobs, collected over the years means I have options.

However…….

The standard does have a very good ergonomic feel to it.


I have not tried to remove the knob, so no idea how it is fitted inside the stick.


Screw on, plug in???


https://youtu.be/iKWeb1MwUq0?si=sJCM3P5NoEaHq1eJ



Thanks.