Hi all! Ready for action, excitement and more ironoxide than an ocean of lube could penetrate? You’ve come to the right place! Welcome to the Free Model T! Lets jump in with both feet today. I have a lot of cars and I work on them at my own pace. I take my time. I switch projects a lot, but today I cannot do that; I have a serious deadline that involves not one, but two cars.
The plan was simple; a camping trip in baja. My friend ‘Mr. Pipe’ and I would get some guys and take his big green suburban and “The Summer project” (a recently salvaged jeep grand Cherokee) and head a few hours south of the border to a private beach spot with nice waves, sand dunes and all the clams you can rake.
Then the power steering box blew out in the jeep. Then Mr pipe sold his green machine. Then he realized he couldn’t even go.
Never one to give up I called the men who had already committed and informed them we would still be going, just in a different suburban… My suburban “the gamble”… That doesn’t run… And hasn’t since before I bought it. Now I have committed 2 cars, neither of which is roadworthy to a long road trip into a 3rd world country.
Tonight I get started on preparations. I ordered a reseal kit for the jeep’s power steering box and dropped it off at my brother B.B.’s shop so we can straighten the frame tomorrow.

And now I need to turn the pile of parts strewn across my back patio into a running engine for the gamble and everything has to be ready in the next 2 months.
I hate deadlines.