Re: OK...why??

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Scott in Aztlán wrote:
> On Wed, 03 Dec 2003 05:56:39 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brent P) wrote:
> 
>>> I would have gradually slowed, coming to a complete stop if necessary, to see
>>> when he would finally decide to just pass me. Then I would have driven behind
>>> him with my HID high beams on to see how he liked his own medicine. ;)
>>
>>I was driving the torqueless wonder, once by me I would have not likely 
>>caught up, nor are the headlamps high enough to bother the driver of 
>>a GMC. although the left front one isn't properly aimed, i doubt it
>>would have offended him. 
> 
> You need to take you car over to Ricardo's and have some decent lights
> installed. :) 

The headlamps on this thing work better than my mustang's. If I am going
to spend money on headlamps it won't be on this car.

> Still, had you slowed, at least he would no longer have been
> riding your bumper with his brights in your eyes.

I did, to 25-30mph he didn't pass. He stayed there with multiple 
opertunities to pass. That was my whole point in slowing. 
 
>>It has a broken spring that I put in a tensioned piece of wire to 
>>simulate. close, but not perfect. (yeah,yeah, it's a PITA to fix because 
>>my brother bumped it into something like 8-9 years ago so the front 
>>bumper is slightly out of posistion and it makes the head lamp assemblies 
>>very difficult to deal with beyond changing bulbs) 

> What's its rust-to-metal ratio these days? :)

This car has very little body rust considering it's hard life. The
worst rust (structural in the driver's rear strut tower) the car has I 
repaired sometime in the early-mid 1990s and it hasn't returned. The car 
rusts in very strange ways, I've replaced brake lines, power steering 
lines, gas tank, patched the oil pan, all from from rust. The body, 
underside, all rather good. little bits of surface here and and there 
underneath, door bottoms on the inside, and a bit in the rear wheel wells 
and a spot on the underside of the passenger side rocker panel. The faded 
oxidized paint is what one notices looking at it.