Upholstery kits

leather kits you can order for your car:
http://autoupholsterykits.com/

Finally!

The tires I bought for the '95 Eldo are swapped onto non-leaky wheels!

I brought the car and my original wheels from the '93 (which are a little dinged up but don't leak) to the tire shop today. It was going to cost $96 to have the tires swapped, but I bitched about all the extra fees ($20 to fill the tires with nitrogen? WTF?) and got them to take the price down to $60, That was very nice of them, and will make me consider coming back to this shop the next time I need tires.

(photo to come)
Here's a shot of how badly one of the chrome wheels is destroyed. How does this even happen?

Automotive Painting

I just signed up for a class the local community college is hosting on Automotive painting. I figured I should Learn how to do it, since I personally have so many cars that need paint ('67 Vert, '67 Eldo, 944 and the '79 Deville) Plus, dad has two or three and Doug has a few himself.

If I can get Doug to do the body work on the '67 Vert, I may be able to get that car finished before the Cadillac-LaSalle Club's Las Vegas Grand National in the Summer of '09.

Need some rain-x

It's finally started to be winter here in California, and I'm realizing that I need to apply some Rain-x to the windsheild of the 944. The wipers work well enough, but you never know when they'll stop working, and having the rain-x on there with the wipers makes it a lot easier to see. I may have to use an entire bottle on the hatch window...

Speaking of the hatch window. I'm also wondering how much it would cost to put in a rear wiper. I already have the correct glass with the hole in it to mount one. but am not sure if I have the proper wiring or if it would need to be routed in. I'll have to do some research on it...

Sick this weekend - didn't do much

I did put the new registration sticker on the 944.

944 spider problem

Today when I left work, the 944 didn't want to start. It seemed like a battery problem, since it just clicked, with no attempt to start. the lights and radio were working with no problems, so I thought maybe there was corrosion on the cables or a bad connection. I tried to wiggle the negative cable but it was on securly and wouldn't budge, the I lifted the cap of the positive cable, and saw a little spider buliding a cocoon type web (most likely planning to lay some eggs there) on my postive battery cable. I shooed the spider away and scraped the web off the battery, then the car started right up.