in case you care im all better now... completely dexvoid of anything resembling a cough. anyways... where did i leave off. o, yah, ok. wll this past weekend.. saturday to be exact.. my family and i went down to the city to once and for all pick up my truck and bring it home. all went well until we got there. the first thing my dad noticed was the lack of left side view mirror. as you may know... it is required by law that u have a left side view mirror and at least one other mirror (right side view or rear view) so we had to find a way to attach the bloody thing. in theory it is suposed to attach to the pinon the door hinge... but try as we mite, we couldnt get the damn thing to move, so.... we driled the hinge, screwed in some screws, cut off the heads and welded them in place then we drilled some other holes in the mirror fixture, and got some nuts and bolted it on that way. obce that was over with we were pretty musch good to go. so our first stop was to the gas station, where we had a considerable amount of trouble tryin to get the damn truck up the slanted driveway of the gas station. once that was done, we took the truck onto the freeway for a breif sprint to the next exit where we would take the streets to the golden gate bridge. unfortunately, just after we got off the freeway and after we made our way to an underpass that would take us to 19th avenue... the truck started to crap out.... after several occasions of complete powerloss and few times when the truch just plain died we decided we should head back to Joe's house (Joe was my neighbor when i lived in Daly City) so yeah, on our way back to his house, the truck stalled like hell and gave nearly no power at all. we were able to coast into a bust stop... where we ended up parked for quite a while. after pushing the truck back to let buses stop there, we called Joe to come and help us out. after arriving we figured the problem was the coil... since the distributor wasnt getting any electricity. so i went with Joe to the auto parts store to get a replacement. after replacing it, the engine still wasnt starting... tho we did solve the problem of the lack of spark. so we started taking stuff apart, after taking the top half of the carboretor off we noticed some weird guey blue strips of... what seemed to be silicone (dont go there..) it was probably some of that sealant crap that is put on a gasket to be sure it makes a perfect seal. after clearing that crap out and putting everything back together, we tryed to start it again... it didnt, so we switched the battery thinking that with all the time we tryed to get it started we killed the battery. after putting in the spare, we found that the spare had less power than the original... go figure. once we got the first onme back in, and it still wouldnt start we went to our last resort and called AAA to either jump start us or get us towed (to petaluma... hehehe) i was hoping it woulndt start and we could get it home without actually having to drive it. unforyunately he did indeed get it started and my dad just drove it back to joes house.. wich may have been better since Joe found several other things wrong with it. we'll try again this weekend.
In Other News
after our failed attempts at bringing home the truck we called a night and decided to come home, but while eating dinner at burger king my aunt started talking about the good deal that the local VW dealership was having, she's been wanting to get a new car for months.. maybe even years, i dunno. so we went to see what they had. after test driving an awsome VR6 GLi, she test drove a 1.8t with the tiptronic.. which was sorta cool, but she wanted a stick. so after some hrd bargaining (all she did was ask for some time to think about it, whip out her cellphone and call my dad... and the salesman just kept poking his head in and lowering the price).. it started at 26,500... and we "worked" him down to 23, 800.... o well. so she bought it and i drove her old car (an 87 honda prelude) home. ok.. thats all for now.