Its been a weird weekend for me with the failure of not just my own car but my fathers as well.
The Daytona’s breakdown was all my fault as in my attempt to replace the thermostat so the damn thing would heat up in this weather one of the two Bolts Snapped off, making for the fun of me trying to use and extractor tool, which failed of course as the drilled hole is just off. After the fun of scavaging a self tapping screw to hold down the broken side and reassembling the whole thing and taking the car from work to the Park so my Dad could drill out the broken nut and retap it. As a loaner he gave me his Buick so I could return the next day and help. The battery froze in the cold (It is permanently wrecked) so now I am trapped at home in this cold with a broken car in the park and another here. Suffice it to say its been great fucking times on the automotive front. Don’t get me wrong I understand that when you pay $200.00 for a car you will be inconvenienced on occasion and largely the car has been great but now is not a great time with work and exams all around plus the -30 or better temperatures making it impossible for me to even move about.
Kind of a piss off
As well I may have found a new car, a Toyota Celica I am not sure of the eventual price and the like but I am sure its nothing I want to keep and finally my “Little Plan” to flip a car to help get ahead is coming together. Mostly due to there being no way in hell I would want to keep it. Its like money in the bank.
Now if only the Daytona ran better <Sigh>