If you’ve been a reader of our antics for long enough, you know that David has had an incredible journey. He’s gone from the man with a backyard mud pit, alternators under trees, shower spaghetti, and tools frozen to the floor, to a California dad with a business, a wife, and a modern BMW. As it turns out – at least in the fantasy realm of COTD – you can take the David away from the shower spaghetti, but you cannot take the shower spaghetti away from David.
David drove his Jeep Comanche 2,000 miles to pick up 1,500 pounds of parts that he needed to build a new WWII Jeep from scratch. See, the old David didn’t go anywhere! Sid Bridge:
Young David: Hi there, 2025 David. Visiting me again to tell me about the future, I see.
David: Yep. And boy am I tired. I actually came back in time to relax and crash on your couch for a bit.
Young David: What is it this time? Did you take a long trip in the i3 to attend the Concours de Elegance and overdo it on caviar again? Did you take the family on a whirlwind trip across Italy with a stopover in Switzerland to experience the Alps and dine on locally sourced snow crab legs?
David: If you must know, I drove a Jeep Comanche (that I JUST finished wrenching on) hundreds of miles to pick up a motherload of WWII Jeep parts so I can put together a WWII Jeep from scratch using nothing but parts I found on eBay. I’ve got an impossible wrenching deadline, so I’d appreciate some empathy.
Young David: I KNEW YOU WERE STILL ME!! Come on! Let’s eat some shower spaghetti and make another cake in a valve cover!
JerryLH3 has legitimately good advice about wrenching on the Internet:
Forums are still the gold standard in my opinion for finding and sharing information about specific vehicle platforms. So many people have dumped them in favor of Facebook groups and I have to say, Facebook groups suck. The search functionality is terrible, there are no sub-forums, and there actually isn’t nearly as much useful info as you need. For older cars, everything has been done by some guys 20 years ago and was documented meticulously. The only problem is their pics are now a bunch of red x’s because they were uploaded to Photobucket.
Jason wrote a Cold Start about a Ford Prefect, the car, that is. But since the Autopian has lovely nerds in it, of course, we’re going to get Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy references:
Balloondoggle:
That Ford Prefect is SOOOO froody!
D-dub:
It’s mostly harmless.
A Real Bobby Dazzler:
“What is the top speed of a Ford Prefect?”
“42!”
“No, that won’t work.”
Finally, Brian wrote a Morning Dump about European roads, and I can’t stop laughing at this remark from Eggsalad:
“Going 626 miles in 10 hours is one thing, but to do it at highway speeds is another.”
Um, pretty much the only way to go 626 miles in 10 hours is to do it at highway speeds. Unless you want to putter around town for 7 hours and then go 200mph for the final 3 hours.
Have a great evening, everyone!
Top graphic images: The Autopian; Speakman
That’s #4 for me! I have it on good authority that my next one earns me a bowl of shower spaghetti.