All of us have had that experience, you know. The weekend brake job or master cylinder change out or radio install that just doesnt get done Sunday night by 8 PM and you have to jury rig the car to make it be able to get you to work Monday at 5 am through rush hour traffic the next day..



I think things really hit rock bottom once when I decided to rip out every piece of rust in my car and weld in new panels. Boy little chunks of rust in the floorboards turned out to be the size of Manhattan land plots.

The worst thing was, I had to drive the car because the engine and transmission both came from a donor car with 112K on it and the car was mechanically stout. Driving car on the Interstate at 60 mph with the highway beckoning right up at you is kind of a Transmeditative experience. I guess that why they don't put windows on the floorboards...