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Car Forum / Antique and Collectibles / Studebaker / October 2004Why do I do this?
Leaving for Mesa, AZ tomorrow with a stop at Alex's for the night. Part of the "ritual" is to clean the car (final spray detail, windows, vacuum, Armorall, etc.). Why do I do this? The run to Alex's tomorrow has a couple of stretches along the coast (San Louis to Pismo then Santa Barbara south) where everything is sure to get crusty not to mention the normal road grime and bugs that S2D will pick up in the 750+ mile trip. Why the heck do I have the need to leave with a clean car? Does anybody else do this or am I alone in this fetish? -Dick- Hey, I just hopped in the CE and drove it the hundred miles to the Florida SDC meet... Hired a tourist kid for $10 and let him clean the crap off of it. He was 'honored' to work on a real hot rod. I was 'honored' to drink beer while watching him work. Must have impressed the judges, huh? <lol> Jeff (hope the rain crap misses you) Rice "Dick Steinkamp" wrote... > Leaving for Mesa, AZ tomorrow with a stop at Alex's for the night. Part > of [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > -Dick- Note to self: Find tourist kid in Mesa. -Dick- > Hey, > I just hopped in the CE and drove it the hundred miles to the Florida SDC [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > > > > -Dick- Oh there'll be guys willing to wash your car in Mesa... just don't give them the keys. Speaking from a brother who lives there. Lee > Note to self: Find tourist kid in Mesa. > -Dick- The problem as I see it is that you don't drive it often enough. If you did, you would soon tire of cleaning it everytime it left the garage. At least that's the way it worked for me. Tim (I like Jeff's idea) K. Good point. The daily driver doesn't get the same treatment. -Dick- > The problem as I see it is that you don't drive it often enough. If you > did, you would soon tire of cleaning it everytime it left the garage. At > least that's the way it worked for me. > Tim (I like Jeff's idea) K. > Good point. The daily driver doesn't get the same treatment. Right. I haven't washed by '95 Dodge Ram for three or four years. <G> Paul Johnson > > Good point. The daily driver doesn't get the same treatment. > > Right. I haven't washed by '95 Dodge Ram for three or four years. <G> > Paul Johnson My T-Cab gets washed each time it rains..  SignatureJT Just tooling through cyberspace in my ancient G4 I painted my car more times in California than I washed my car in England! Karl > > Good point. The daily driver doesn't get the same treatment. > > Right. I haven't washed by '95 Dodge Ram for three or four years. <G> > Paul Johnson karl haas wrote.. I painted my car more times in California than I washed my car in England! Now there's a man after my own heart! When we lived on Okinawa, a friend (BTW Sonny, he was a Flight Engineer) spent hours and hours washing and waxing his $2500 Toyota sedan. Because Okinawa is about a mile and a half wide at it's skinniest point and 20 miles wide at it's widest point -every car rusts away from the sea salt in the air. There's just no getting around it. I had a $1000 beater that I never washed. The paint pits turned to rust which turned to holes. I would 'glass over the holes, hit 'em with primer, get it inspected and drive for another year. At year 3 on island his 'yota developed cancer from the underside up, and he sold it for $500 at the end of his 4 year tour. At year 3 my beater had many glass patches and at the end of my 4 year tour, I traded it to a neighbor for a six pack. He got 8 weeks of driving out of it before scrapping it and I got 3 beers (we split the six pack BSing) I didn't wash it for 4 years and probably spent a total of 3 hours glassing and painting it. I WON! Mark (laziest bastid) Dunning > > Good point. The daily driver doesn't get the same treatment. > > Right. I haven't washed by '95 Dodge Ram for three or four years. <G> > Paul Johnson Does anybody else do this or am I alone in this fetish? You are not alone. I used to tell my troops, "You may go home covered in mud, blood, and beer, but you will start the shift clean, starched, and polished!" It's a diesease. Accept it. <G> SignatureDave Lester Home of the Internationally Renowned Studebakers, 'Sheba and Goliath See pictures at www.davesplaceinc.com They are our babies... Clean 'em on both ends... ;-) Dick S. > Does anybody else do this or am I alone in this fetish? > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > It's a diesease. Accept it. <G> > They are our babies... Clean 'em on both ends... Don't forget the middle! -?? SignatureDave Lester Home of the Internationally Renowned Studebakers, 'Sheba and Goliath See pictures at www.davesplaceinc.com > > They are our babies... Clean 'em on both ends... > > Don't forget the middle! -¿Ö > -- > Dave Lester Belly button lint?? SignatureJT Just tooling through cyberspace in my ancient G4 Well, it is Chevy powered <grin> -Dick- > Belly button lint?? > > -- > JT > > Just tooling through cyberspace in my ancient G4 YOU ARE NOT ALONE! Does your wife make fun of you for it too? http://community.webtv.net/FreddMertz/theFREDDMERTZ It's nice to hear I'm in good company. -Dick- > YOU ARE NOT ALONE! Does your wife make fun of you for it too? > > http://community.webtv.net/FreddMertz/theFREDDMERTZ |
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