Vice vs. Versa?

This angle make the Mustang appear to be much larger than the Nissan
 but they are actually pretty close in size.

Today I picked up a rental car for my trip down to Riverside.

How to improve the lighting on my 1996 SN95 Mustang.

I'll bet you can see pretty good with these!

Without it looking bogus!

The SN95 Mustang's headlights are not all that bad, until you compare them to a more modern car. Like a 2007 Mustang or my 2007 F 150. Then they end up a bit lacking.

Now to do something about those shock absorber mounts.

Not much left here.
You might imagine that it made a bit of noise.

During the '80s and 90's Jaguar used a different material for it's insulating bushings. Instead of plain black rubber, they used what appears to be a special foam rubber. I imagine that it was more resilient or perhaps had a measure of inherent self damping. Certainly it wasn't particularly long lasting.

Sharing a few of my recent flea market finds. This is not a late April's Fool post!

I know what kitsch means.

First of all, is this velvet painting of rather questionable taste. I remember seeing these things for sale at the San Jose flea market back in the early 1970's. Besides Devils, there were sad eyed children, voluptuous nudes, Matadors, ferocious tigers, equally sad clowns, African American couples sporting huge Afros, dolphins jumping out of the water and various portraits of Jesus, Elvis Presley and President Kennedy.

Not my best work. More bodges that I'm not proud of.

The velcro seemed like a good idea at the time.

That sticky mess of melted velcro adhesive would still allow the rear view mirror to slip down. Usually while going over a sharp bump or pothole. I got to the point where I would reflexively reach over and push the mirror back up into position.

Nothing to be proud of here. Sacrificial tires.

Step one, remove wheel.

Recently I've been so busy that I haven't had much opportunity to work on any of my cars, even a little bit.

Now it seems as though I'm finally going to get a free moment or two.

"Hey, I could make a living doing this!" The final installment.

This is where it ends.
Quite a come down from having an actual shop of my own.

Trying to find a way to cut costs I moved my inventory out of the shop into -------- a public storage space. But not just any tiny storage space, a 10 ft. by 30 ft. space. I moved all the parts racks that I had built along with my metal shelving and organized it all into a most useful arrangement.