Still a LOT to do to that car.
Brakes are pretty high on the list right now. After that, I've got to hook up the lines to the heater and hope the core doesn't leak. I need a good resistor for the 6V heater motor.
Car needs all new window channels, and front doors also need the glass replaced. Bla bla.... I had written a page of stuff the car needs, but you guys don't really want to know what shape my carpet is in.
Good thing about this car is that it has no bondo. Just a little rust below trunk and lower quarters. Solid floor & trunk pans. Nothing major. I figure Ill fix that when I get the bodywork done.
A little history: I'm the 3rd owner. 2nd owner let car sit in yard for 4 years. Dad bought car for me when I turned 16 in '92. Had 68K miles, and was bone stock except for redone interior and paint job. My dad offered a grand, and we drove it home the next day. I drove the car every day from '92 to '97, when she wore out. Everything broke at once. So I've been fixing the mechanical stuff since '97.
How the car got named: I was dating a girl named Carole in high school. The car never gave me problems until Carole. I'd take her out in the car, and we'd do the typical dinner & movie stuff. One night as we're cruising the local strip, she turns on the radio, and the radio blows up in the dash at her. Scares her to death. So I fix the radio and we go out a few weekends later. That night, as we're sitting at a red light, the heater core blows out and dumps a load of hot antifreeze on her legs. Didn't hurt her, but it scared her again. After that, she wouldn't ride in my "Stephen King car" as she started to call it.
Thus Christine was named.
Come to think of it, she ran off a few girlfriends.... Christine doesn't like other women around me.
later,
chip
