It Just Keeps Going

It’s been exactly one year sitting 3 levels underground, it was never started once.

Replaced the battery, oil change, I turned the key and amazing.

If you see Mario at the Willowdale Canadian Tire say hi for me, nicest guy.

I picked up the keys, climbed inside and from the parking lot called CAA… “so I’m covered when we hang up?” Yes. Turn key.

We’re back in business.

I’d forgotten what is was like to drive something I’m so familiar with, knowing the nuances.

Below is the sum total of everything that glows inside my car.

So little compared to cars today, eh.  The stereo has been broken for years, no music at all.

172,280 miles* = 277,257 km

Now that we’re flying around again, I’m all conflicted about crushing it.  I think I can eek out a little more from it, use it as a drop car till the spring, and crush it then.  I am having serious attachment issues with this thing, so dumb, it’s worth nothing.

* the Canadian Explorer drove an American car

 

The Studio* Lives!

MOBILITY. I AM SO HAPPY. YES I AM YELLING.

5 months without a car, longest stretch in a decade+, and it was really getting to me. Genuinely, it was making me down.

Then two weeks ago when I was on a roof looking out, and it hit me, “I can’t get to any of that”. And I’m used to being able to get to that, designed my life around being able to get to that, you know?

BEHOLD!!

Check out the keyed entry.

The odometer readout is more for me than you, to document. Miles though, funny eh… The Canadian Explorer drove an American car, shhhhh.

I can’t turn on radio though, I’m being defeated by the anti-theft system.

You can’t see the display to enter the code to turn on the radio.  It’s my new game: you get two tries then it locks for an hour.  It’s possible this is impossible to win, because the radio might no longer works.  Half the windows don’t go down.  No one knows.

Funny I posted the radio security code online eh, not for the first time either.  Security is relative.

Driving home.

This happy face is brought to you by Claus of Frontenac AutoBody in Kingston, Ontario.

Remember when it all started, my car broke down and I left it under a cel tower in Kingston?

I got news last week Claus and his gang had been tinkering, and YES got it up and running again YES Claus YES Frontenac AutoBody.  And another YES to you for not having a website, and making me link to the YellowPages ahaha for real.

Their specialty is making  high-end cars in wrecks, look like they never were.  As well as Extreme Studio Maintenance.  Actually, if you smashed your pretty car here in Toronto, I’d flat bed it here.

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For those of you just meeting me, ‘The Studio’ is my car, which was an integral part of my show, The Canadian Explorer, which I will explain further here, in song.