Thanksgiving & cars

Snow shoes on my DD, and beer.

Hope to move a Onan 15KW plant just listed right now on CL so I can put the S197 away for the winter. Need the berkeleying room now w/o rearranging E36 M3 all over again. Too cold for my old bones.

After gorging myself on turkey and stuffing, I need to spend some quality time with my Dodge Dakota, which is rapidly degrading. I've neglected the fact that it needs a new steering shaft (the part that goes between the column and the box/rack), so I ordered a new one on eBay. Chrysler decided to make these non-serviceable, but the one I found is really cheap, so whatever. I hope it will be here by the weekend so I can toss it in and get rid of the wonky steering it exhibits right now.

It's also getting a Bluetooth stereo, because I've been spoiled by the Bluetooth hands-free calling and audio streaming that I have in my Mazda. I picked up one of these:

Best Buy had it on sale for $69.99, so I jumped on it. Last head unit I bought was an Alpine for my old WRX and I spent $200 on the thing. It's the one that's currently in the truck, but the CD player part failed and I can't hook my phone to it without buying a $100+ box, and even then it won't stream audio. It was a no-brainer to replace it.

I'm also hitting the local boneyards looking for a horn relay, Idle Speed sensor, and possibly a headliner for the truck.

Wow you guys are ambitious. Probably won't get to anything vehicle related. Making a sliding barn door for the wife's closet. We'll see after that.

I got to drive my dad's new to him 2015 Z06 today. Holy hell what a car. I can't even imagine where the limits are. It's a marvel - it's so easy to drive and fairly sedate when you keep your right foot out of it but will snap your head back and sounds like a pro stock dragster when you get on it. The rev matching on the 7 speed was really cool too. I have big clunky feet and have never gotten the hang of heel-toe downshifting so having the computer anticipate and do it for you was pretty neat, especially even when puttering around town. The steering wheel, shifter, and driving position are all so intuitive too. My first time in the car everything seemed to just come naturally.

Going to clean garage and put chevelle in middle to start metalwork.

Hopefully getting my 350 off the stand and into the Bravada. This means the 4.3 still needs to be evicted.

Giving my FiST a thorough cleaning, winterizing and mending after being manhandled by the dealer for the last month.

Im going too work, theres a possibility ill also be working on my father in laws beater civic.

Get the snow blower out and serviced.

Put the mower in the shed.

Nothing else unless I get a better offer.

Going to pull the 240z's engine and front suspension completing the tear down to the frame. Then start rust repair.

Dismounting dry rotted tires on the 2017 challenge corvette and cutting out the windshield, oh and continuing to repair the fiberglass repair on the hood...

Will be down at my parents' place on the bay, probably do some work on dad's boat with him and watch some football.

Then working the seasonal job Friday and Saturday, since it pays for my car stuff (the day job pays for the mortgage and stuff, lol)

I will have access to the garage for the first time ever on my vehicle ownership. I definitely need to do an oil change and I'm going to clean lots of the blowoff system.