Time (as in need more)!

[lloyd3]

Not sure how it happened but I keep getting dragged-off to do things other than to enjoy my old car. The absolute best times to use it (Spring and Fall) seem to be filling up with other activities that keep me away from home more & more these days (the guys with AC in their cars don't seem to have this issue). Driving the empty and almost perfectly straight roads up in Nowhere, Minnesota (almost in Canada) last week had me wondering how much fun they'd be listening to a healthy 440 echoing off of the surrounding real estate.  Getting it there wouldn't be easy, but having  it there would be a blast.  Gotta think about this one...

[b5blue]

Learn to say NO when you need to! If they really love ya it won't be an issue.

[Old Moparz]

Just get in & go, tell everyone you're too busy. 

My problem is trying to get major repairs done on the outside of the house so it leaves very little free time for the cars. Weather hasn't been cooperative, so I am not going to open walls & be subjected to water indoors. 

I'd love to put the tools away, take the scaffolding down & go for a long drive.

[lloyd3]

B5: I'm my own worst enemy here. I like to do these other things too (and they are even more seasonally restricted).

It's a balancing act for everybody anymore, I'm sure. If it was more like the old days (when these cars were just cars, then...no worries, you'd just drive them everywhere and didn't even think about it).  There is just a time and a place for everything now, it seems, and it somehow takes me longer to get to any of it.

My car in northern Minnesota would be lots of fun until the 1st bad weather event there, then nothing would be fun about it.

[b5blue]

I hear ya, see my Charger IS just a car. Repaired not restored and handed down never sold. My standard is good enough for now! 

[lloyd3]

I was just in rural West Virginia and my car would have been a blast there too.  Big, wild and mostly empty roads that are almost "green tunnels" in that the canopy of trees over many of the roads there lock together over them, making them seem almost otherworldly. Twisty, up and down, and fairly decent pavement through big wooded regions and small, quaint towns.  It was like going back in time for me. 

The "big-block echo effect" would have been wild there.

So neat!

[Kern Dog]

Pink Floyd......

Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
You fritter and waste the hours in an off-hand way
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way
Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today
And then the one day you find ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun
And you run and you run to catch up with the sun, but it's sinking
And racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in a relative way, but you're older,
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death
Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time
Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desparation is the English way
The time is gone the song is over, thought I'd something more to say....

It is curious to me how this song wasn't that "heavy" to me when I was a kid but now I can relate to it.

[lloyd3]

Pink Floyd, fitting.

Had the car out for two days in a row. Lunch with a buddy and a gas run for the lawnmower. Even went over to Greasemonkey for a free fluid refill (my son worked there for 4-years so I now know everybody there & the manger is a car nut too).

[Kern Dog]

I had mine out yesterday running some errands at places without a lot of people. I treated it like a regular car, putting stuff in the trunk and idling in traffic like any other vehicle on the road, but....
Driving a classic is so much cooler!

[lloyd3]

It is.

I got lots of commentary at the gas station & the liquor store yesterday (a fellow wanted to trade me a brand new Ford 4x4 truck for it) which was fun but traffic really sucks around here anymore and it was really bad yesterday. We've got a local seasonal fair going on in town and there's also a bunch of folks threatening to "demonstrate" against ICE and the President. I think that's all planned for today so I'll be nowhere near it all. 

It's threatening to disrupt a local car show even...so dumb.





My phone was giving me fits yesterday when I was trying to listen to some music while driving (it plays into my hearing aids quite nicely normally). Sure wish I could get this working again (I think the belt is bad).

[Kern Dog]

The corrupt and deviant are not going away quietly despite the majority public opinion being against them.

[lloyd3]

"corrupt & deviant" seems a little strong for some of these folks, as many are just ideologically possessed and economically ignorant. Another description would be "useful idiots".