Week 37 - It’s alive.

This whole post is about the truck… so if you don't give a shit about that kind of thing, keep on keeping on. Is you are interested, especially in something really kick ass, like an engine turning over the first time, then this is for you. Our little baby Gypsy finally fucking turned over. Hallelujah!

I actually wrote this post back in September right after this happened. I just suck because I've been too crazy busy to actually post it. But here it goes…



Sunday, 9/9/07: The Garage: It is ALIVE!

So, I am have been at the garage ALOT this summer, mostly because I am a truck widow. My boyfriend is living every boy's dream by building his own truck and I sit idly by. Well, not really idly. I mostly just make fun of everybody and try to help wherever possible.

I do more work than this guy. This is Ryan, Troy's brother. Beats me what he was doing here, but I think that it had something to do with a nap.





I also hung up this air freshener. It's cute but smells like high school cruising and bad dates. It's also incredibly hard to photo graph because my camera could notget it through it's thick skull that yes, you can focus on something translucent.




I think that I look fat in this shirt, but I'm not sure yet. But this is me definately hanging it.




Most importantly, here are two videos of the truck running. Well, starting to run. In it's infancy. Also, a picture of Troy looking confused. But he really wasn't. I just caught him at a bad time.

Here is a video of it. WARNING - I talk loud in it. Especially at the beginning. Jesus, I don't know how you people deal with hearing my voice all the time. ew.




Later on in the week, I started to take apart this really old stereo that we are going to repurpose for the truck. Here are bits and pieces. Of course, I could have taken a picture of the full thing before I took it apart, but that would be practical. And I am anything but practical.





I don't know what leaked all over it, but I haven't died yet so I think that it can't be anything too bad. If you read my bulletin about this a couple weeks ago, this is what we need an amp for. Thanks to a very generous Delo donation, we have a speaker.




This is all the shit we didn't use. What a mess. It's going to a good place though - total recycling of all this very old junk. BTW, it doesn't really smell bad, although you would think so by looking at it.




I can't express how exciting it was to hear this thing purr. Troy rebuilt the carb and not without a lot of trouble and fuss. You can always check out his (rarely updated) blog here. Maybe if you yell at him, he will actually post more.

I'm out. It smells like fumes in here.

Here is Troy and Kyle hooking up spark plug cables. I think this shot is funny - but I'm not sure why. I just know I take REALLY FUCKING NICE photos.