Day 13 - Fantastic Voyage

Day 13, I’m starting to see the appeal to an older car…

I attempted to cleanup the digital dash again before admitting defeat.  Still no luck, I’ll need to swap out the LCD, not a tough job, but an additional cost, and after yesterday, I’m going to hold off for a few days and let the credit card billing cycle close out. 

I did need to run some errands, so I put the display back in and hit the road.  This is the first drive with the new ABS relay, so I wanted to see how it would do, and make sure I wasn’t going to pop the diodes or blow up the relay.  It all seems to be good to go.  Still have a caliper hanging up now and then, but not all the time. 

I’m currently driving a 2005 Cadillac CTS-V for a daily driver.  So I’m used to the acceleration of the Corvette, but the Caddy is so much more refined…  as it should be, it’s a Caddy, right? 

But right now I find myself in an older, less refined sports car.  I’m feeling the shaking as I roll over bumps, I feel the rough thunk of the turn signal stalk that requires enough effort to snap it off the column,  I smell the combination of old car, gasoline, and exhaust.  I hear the wind and the road leaking through the old seals into the cabin. 

As I’m noticing the little differences, it hits me… and I start to get it…  The reason people like driving old cars.  It’s the simpler time they represent.  They are crude, they smoke, smell, rattle, rumble, they breathe fire and just haul ass down the road.  The driver is not coddled and insulated from the outside world as they are in modern conveyances.  Isolated in our own plush interiors, nope, none of that with this old girl…  I just widen my grin, punch the throttle, and take it all in… 

In the words of Ice Cube, “today was a good day”

Parts replaced today:

none

Parts cost so far: $995