Off to see the Wizard

Let me tell ya about "The Mustang". Brad bought it from his cousin, Daniel, about 7 years ago. Brad has had mustangs since I met him. When the house was broken into 3 years ago...it was stolen. No lie. The police found it 7 days later in Wyandotte Lake. I wish I had pics of what it looked like then. The interior was soaked & stinky & muddy. Luckily, Jeremy has a Mustang that he raced & all his interior was at our parents, so he gave that to Brad to replace the muddy stuff. Seats, carpet - everything was replaced.

Brad was driving it to work one Saturday morning. While he was crossing the Sherman Minton Bridge, it lost all its gears except one...4th gear. (Don't ask me how-I don't speak car engine.) Jeremy & I went over to load it up on the trailer - we brought it home that day & it hasn't moved since. That was about 18 months ago... That breaks my heart because I love that car. And ya'll KNOW I love my Explorer...but there's something about the mustang. It's fast...it's red...it causes me to have road rage. What can I say? If someone is going too slow, I can drop it down to 4th & flat.take.off. Ahhhh...

It has been on Brad's "I'm gonna get around to doing _______" list. Well, Brad's a very busy guy. However, since he's also the kinda guy who can do ANYTHING, it's hard for him to accept the fact that time is NOT on his side & he may have to PAY someone to do something he can do for free. But he decided to take it to a guy to have another transmission installed. Yea!

Jeremy came over last night with the trailer to load it up. Since it only had 4th gear, my job was to stop traffic on the road (and to take pics, duh...) because he needed to get a running start to get up the steep driveway & he wasn't gonna be able to stop.

Once he got it loaded, the doors can't be opened. So instead of doing it Dukes of Hazzard style-Brad decided to climb out of the trunk.

The "new to us" transmission.

Strapping it down.

The guy said it would probably be a week before he got started on it. Brad said, "hey, that's cool...it's been sitting in the garage collecting dust. I'm in no hurry." Don't worry, I will have pics of the resurrection...I already have a title for the post... :)