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You need to make it "the wife's" car.

Then it will always:

I need to go work on YOUR car....
I need to buy this part for YOUR car....

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Spoken from experience I see...lol.

I'm slowly making progress. The kids are already on board, so they are now participating in the pressure campaign. Honestly too many projects going on right now so not sure if adding another to the stable is the wisest thing.

Had a day with really nice weather, and it happened to line up with an early day off from work. So I pushed Rusty out of the way, got the Panama started, and took it out for a nice drive with one of my daughters. Ran some errands then opened the car up for some 60mph driving on straight country roads. Performed well. I stopped to grab a quick picture with some nice early winter background.




Not many days left in the year for this. I don't know when the next time is that I'll be able get out and drive the Panama. By the way, my kids have started to refer to the car as "Van Halen" because of their song "Panama". I think that name may stick. Definitely better than "Blueberry".

-Kevin

Your car is looking magnificent. You know I drive mine in all weather. Have to. It’s my only car now. But Van Halen is splendiforous!

We had quite a few parties and gatherings in the shop this month. We held our work Christmas party in it with 30 people, which means the Packards had to move out. We played musical cars and shifted everything around so the Packards could be kept out of the weather for a few weeks. Now that the parties are done it was time to put the cars back in. So I took the opportunity to let both get up to operating temperature before I put them back where they belong.

The Super 8 idles fine but runs poorly under load. I tested first gear up and down the driveway and it's not great. I'll dig into it in Spring when I can get it back on the road.