I'm currently finding myself in kind of a funk, thinking about cars in general.

Too much thought, and not enough action!
Rodan's famous sculpture.

I know, I know, that's what I get for thinking!

But this time it's due to a somewhat different situation.

I now find myself with newer cars that fulfill the functions that I had once wanted to fill with more vintage vehicles. 

 No, I haven't forgotten about my '96 Mustang.

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What to do, that is the question.

I'm still trying to figure out what to do about it.

The smog test shop has a free retest within 90 days.

I'm a bit puzzled by what happened. Especially since there weren't any codes displayed. 

 I took my Navigator on it's first weekend trip.

It's a nice drive through the Sonoma valley.

It wasn't that far, only about 280 miles for the round trip.

 A car guys nightmare. Part Two. 

This is what it looked like from the outside.

I knew that I would need a new set of hinges. I found the kit for 180.00 at Home Depot. The springs were extra, available separately, at under 30.00. Like everything else prices have gone up steadily over the years but it had been at least twenty years since I replaced the hinges.  

 A car guys nightmare!  Part One.

This picture is from a Home Depot ad.

The garage door hinge broke while both of my cars were in the garage!

 The day that I feared for so long, has finally arrived!

The bad news is highlighted in yellow.

One of my cars, the 1996 Mustang, has failed the smog test! 

What am I going to do?

 I just took my first top down drives of the New Year.

Not my actual car, but close enough

The first was in my '06 Mustang. I had changed out the MAF sensor and wanted to take a longer test drive before I called it good.