What's that you got hiding in your garage there? I smell a project car! Ever since I was little, my Dad kept me in the garage with him while he pulled and rebuilt motors, carbs, heads, axles - we had a heavy duty engine hoist in the back of the garage. I can't remember a time in my childhood when we had less than 4 or 5 cars, with only two drivers! LOL
Dad was always a motorhead...up until my sister was born, 2 of those 4 or 5 cars would inevitably be a 68-72 Charger...he had about 7 different ones while I was growing up. Then my sister was born and we had K-car sedans and old Saabs and a van. I've forgotten a lot of what he taught me so I'm the minor guy, oil, filter, spark plugs and other simple bolt-ons. Although with this Charger I bought, doing anything is labor intensive so I take it to my old garage now...I've known the guy going on 10 years now and I trust him and he doesn't try to beat me so we're all good. If only I had a garage still...
It's a '95 Mitsubishi 3000GT VR4 spyder, I had it for about 5k miles before the engine spun a bearing, and prior to that it was hit by a 17 girl in an expedition while parked at my parent's house. It was a project car for quite some time, but quite unfinished, and my other 95 vr4 spyder decided to get fussy and stop going into reverse. I've tried all the things I know how to, and consensus of people who know what they're doing (not me
) said it's a trans-pull and rebuild job. Considering the 5 years the other one has sat, and that I didn't finish it when I only owned 2 cars and was single ... it's time to let someone else fix it properly and for me to move on.
I'm self-taught / forums taught with everything. My parents never had a garage, and dad doesn't change his own oil or have any mechanical ability. I was 'late' to the party, it started when I graduated college and bought a Trans Am. It's a miracle I even pulled the motor, but I had help at the very end, to disconnect the transfer case and steering lines.
Good mechanics / technicians are worth their weight in gold. The guy that currently does all the tough things I am too scared to try I've known for 4 or 5 years, back when he used to work at another shop (he owns his shop now) and worked on one of my old cars. If you find one of those old chargers floating around, I'd be happy to give it a new home - I hope to eventually get a '69 charger or similar old-school muscle car that has no computer controlled anything - the maintenance is beyond simple compared to twin turbo, twin intercooled, all wheel drive, 4 wheel steering - bloody insanity, I tell you.
