Sat 1 Mar 2008
Junkyard Parts
Today was junkyard diving day. We got up fairly early and hit about 5 used auto parts yards in Bithlo. (Local impresson of Bithlo junkyards being redneck country didn’t prove true at all. There were more Americans-with-accents running them than Americans with Florida accents.)
Good news: Junkyards are a free tutorial on how to work on your car. You can disassemble a vehicle just like your own and walk away at no cost, leaving it unassembled.
Bad news: After returning home with a bumper assembly we discovered, upon trying to install it, that the frame of our car is bent and the new bumper won’t fit.
Not sure how to proceed at this point.
[Update on how to proceed: we'll take it to a body shop, put it on a frame machine, and hope they can straighten it out for cheap.]
Either way it’s been fun working with Andrew on it.
