I know that it's progress, but isn't kind of annoying that new cars do everything better than old ones?

photo source: Car and Driver.
This is the '23 Cadillac Lyriq 
but you don't have to have anything this fancy.

If we are going to be out, running some errands My Wife will sometimes ask, "Which car are we taking?"

Or, if we lock the house and are walking to the car and I steer her in the direction of the Mustang, she'll ask, "How come we're not taking the Flex? "

Good question. 

 Vintage More doors, dope or nope? Part One.

Yes, I've tipped the scales in my direction. Hard to believe that this is a Packard
a shadow of it's former grandeur.

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Yeah, I know who Drew Peacock is!

Four slams, no clams. More on this later.

 What have I been searching for all these years with cars and motorcycles?

photo from the Web.
I might have had something like this as a child.

Transportation of course, but there was something more. Something that made me a lifetime enthusiast.

 Lately I've been finding myself browsing the forums of the AACA.

Their new logo is much snazzier and appealing than their old one. 

That's the Antique Automobile Club of America.

 Rust - again.

This centuries old painting was destroyed
by a well intentioned amateur attempt to restore it. 

The best of intentions can lead to tragic results without the required resources and skill. Just like the tragic tale of this painting from a Spanish church that made international news.

 That don't impress me much!

You're one of those guys that likes to shine his machine

You'll make me take my shoes off before you let me get in

I can't believe that you kiss your car goodnight

Now c'mon, baby, tell me- you must be joking, right?

Oh-oo-oh, you think you're something special

Oh-oo-oh, you think you're something else

Okay, ...so you've got a car.

That don't impress me much!

So sang Shania Twain back in the Nineties. 

 I found the nuts, but lost my carb parts. 

This is after I sprayed down the moving parts.

I had ordered the part to replace the broken needle/jet seat as well as some rebuild gaskets. Again, I put them somewhere that I was certain that I'd never forget, or I'd recall that clever connection.  NOT!