1. Reviews * Read note below.
2. Cheap Luxury, Cheap Speed, Cheap Economy cars, etc.
3. Car Reviews
4. Tutorials
5. Carporn. This was originally going to be for straggler pictures that I have of cars but will also sometimes include small features on interesting cars I ran into online or off.
6. Finally, Car Feature. This is where I feature people's cars and go through how they got there. You might also see Club Feature which would be about a car club and probably a few cars.
* Edit: As I started a draft of a new article, it didn't fit right away and I realized you can't put every topic in a neat box. You are smart enough to decipher what the thing is about from the title. Forget that concept! Read on my friends.
Lexus fam!
The original inspiration for this website is still exactly the same. For me, it's to learn. Factually speaking, if you teach someone else, you will retain 85-90% of that information as opposed to just reading it for yourself, of which your mind might retain 60%. This is a real phenomena but my numbers may be off (but close).
Remember the original idea? I got a broken car that happened to be my dream car. You guys know but this whole thing started from my desire to not just acquire a daily driver but to teach myself. I've learned a lot since then.
If you don't want to read a few inspirational paragraphs that have nothing to do with cars, just scroll down to "Cars."
Song: Love and Ecstasy by Baby VOX
I just want to bring some inspiration to anyone that might take it. The name of the website came from the state that I am in to this day - broke! I am broke as heck because of health problems. I was really depressed when it happened. Any man that has been in the position where he can't physically work while his wife is working her butt off knows what I've been feeling like.
So I started a business! I took the knowledge I had acquired from fixing these things and I sell auto parts on eBay. Again, I'm not advertising it as this is not the place for that. I bring it up because if nothing had happened to me with my job, I probably still wouldn't have started yet.
My first week, I actually made more than I did at the job but every week isn't the same. It's growing slowly and I'm finally able to provide a little.
What the heck am I getting at? This is for the few people that need to hear it. If whatever you're doing isn't working out, just go for what you really want. Read into the Law of Attraction. Realize that you know yourself better than anybody else and that only you can make your decisions.
People, that has been weighing on me for a while. I felt like somebody needed to read that! But let's get back to cars.
Cars
Let's get back to it. I mentioned in my celebratory article - the one before this one - that I have my car looking like I want it. I get looks already but the car is definitely not done. Let's go over the next steps that I'm going to dive into.
The paint. I've been talking about this for a long time but it has been hard for me to find the time to do this. I'm going to rattle-can the car. For those who might not know the term, I'm going to be spray-painting my car.
Spray-painting your car, you say?! Doesn't that look like crap? It usually would 10 years ago when they didn't have spray paint specifically for cars. I'm not affiliated with them in any way (but if you want to support me, send me some paint!) but Duplicolor 2x Primer and Paint works amazing. It's a thicker paint and doesn't tend to run as much. It's true what the bottle says - you get twice the thickness from the spray.
Anyway, there's been many a time where I thought I was the first to think of it and then I would see it on another car. I had an idea for a roof spoiler and saw it on a car a month later. What I haven't seen yet is the bottom second tone connected all around the car with matching fender flares. The top color, I am going to re-do but leave it white.
Since I can't afford decent rims right now, the stock ones are going to be painted bronze. I want to do the lower tone in light gold. So light gold second tone, going around the wheels with the gold fender flares, and the rest of the body white. Bronze rims. If I don't like it, I'll do what I planned originally which was all white.
I have some fat tires that someone gave me. Of course I will always take care of any problems that may pop up on the car before anything else but this article is getting longer and longer so let me get into the other things I feel like I need to complete the car.
I just mentioned the rims. I also need to lower the front of the car 2-3 inches. From the previous owner, the car has different shocks in the back so it sits about an inch lower there. I want that stance where the front of the car is lower than the back. Also, I'm not ever going so low that I have to watch out for speedbumps. That's not for me.
Oh yeah! There's still an oil leak. The other day I realized that it might actually be the oil pan gasket. Not only does it look funky but valve cover gaskets wouldn't continue leaking with the car parked. I'm gonna see if that's it and if so, I can do that job easily. I hope it IS the oil pan gasket.
The other thing which, sadly, will come last is a modified exhaust. I just want the two mufflers in the back taken off and some nice exhaust pipe tips to go with that rumbly sound. I can't wait for THAT!
There's a couple small things in the interior. For example, the front seats are ripped up. Um... That's it though, actually. I will get lucky one day and find pristine LS400 seats at the junkyard one day.
Now you guys know my plans for the website and for the car. Follow me on this journey. Now instead of seeing a beat up car being restored, you will be seeing a nice one really being restored. Especially when my situation in life is a little better, it's on! If there is a writer out there that would like to join me, you can email me at norgin@gmail.com. Have a good one, people.
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