One of these things is not like the other......

Danny sent me this and asked if I could pick out what was wrong with this picture. I got it. See if you can....

Old Blue gets a new head of hair.

Old Blue came home today, they got the new vinyl roof on in one day, and it looks awesome. Am I going to drive it to school tomorrow? Do bears use jackrabbits as toilet paper? Of course I'm going to drive it to work tomorrow. There would have to be a foot of snow on the ground when I got up to keep me from driving it to work. But the other good news is that they told me they could restore my dash to original for under $200. Then all I'll need is to redo the interior and the car will be as good as new......

Update on Old Blue

Monday it goes back into the shop. I spent countless hours on the internet looking for a new signal switch for my car. Wouldn''t have been hard if it didn't have the tilt steering wheel. Anyway, Red Rock (the guys that work on my car) found the right part. So, I'm gonna have signals AND a tilting steering wheel. I would have settled for no tilting, except that every time you bumped the signal lever it messed with the switch, and eventually broke it. Bummer. This way I get it closer to original anyways. I also talked to the vinyl roof guys, they said that they should be able to put on the new top next week. I discovered another thing about my car, seems there was an early version and a late model year version. I'm not sure which one mine is, but I had to measure the car from the top of the windshield to the bottom of the back window so they could make the right roof for it. I'll have to get the details from the guy when I bring it down there. So, by next weekend it should be in lookin' great, running great and even able to pass inspection. Yeah!

Why "Old Blue"?

The 4 door's got a name. "Old Blue". Why? Well, it is old, and it is blue. And my roommate started calling it "Big Blue", which just didn't ring right, and then it dawned on my as to why. One of my dad’s colleagues when I was in high school had an old ’66 (maybe '65 or '67) Ford Galaxie Wagon. They took it camping, down long dirt roads in the Southern Utah deserts, and it pretty much took everything they gave it. It, too, was blue, and they all called it "Old Blue". Just seemed to fit. I still haven't come up with anything for the convertible or the Subaru, nothing has struck me as perfect yet.