Goodbye to the green machine

The 96 Tracer has a new owner. Yesterday I was prepping the car for a trip to Denver. Elle and Adam Lloyd were going to ride with Alvie and me to find a car. After I loaded tools, rotated tires and made it clean, a thought came to me. Why drive 285 miles in a car that is low maintenance and gets better than 30 mpg to get a car that does the same but not one guaranty of road-worthiness? So now I am back to a truck and a truck with a camper on it.

Somebody likes Fords and Mercurys

How much is the doggy in the window?

Camouflage

...and there's always old reliable

The Grand Marquis wagon came from somewhere up north around Longmont and we parked it at Fred's while we cleaned the glass enough to get it to Thornton. I had it up to 130 mph on I-25 and it ran just like it had never missed a car-wash. The 429 ended up in the super-cruiser. That's because it wouldn't fit in a 96 Tracer. Oh well.

Cleanup 2013

Yes a mess

I started before it really got hot last week.

It's getting somewhere

Still before

It did look foreboding but you know I like the challenge.

The little 302

Somewhere in this there's a 454 that was attached to that short tail 400

More of the mess with a turbo-400 and Samira

 Now I'm getting somewhere

Good enough!

And now it's hot, windy and all dried out. The driveway is reacquired.