This may possibly be my next modification to the car, Konig Rewinds. They exist now, but not in a Miata friendly offset, for now. According to Brian Goodwin at Good-Win Racing they are coming. Going to start saving my pennies now as this is at least a $500 mod.
As I blog I am waiting for the power to flicker and die. In a strange twist of fate, almost exactly a year later we are having another ice storm. At least for this one, it was not led up to by several days of below freezing temperatures, and we have so far been saved by temps today at 33 or 34. This afternoon before we made a Home Depot run I had to knock off about 1/4 of ice from the awning covering the MSV. The roads were still all wet, but if there were overpasses around I bet they would have been frozen.
Tonight it will get below freezing, it will just depend on how much more rain we get whether or not there is any more ice build up. Sometime tomorrow it will get above freezing again and stay there (just barely) until Monday night. Maybe last year’s storm has helped us as well. In 2004 the amount of downed trees and tree limbs was astronomical, that natural pruning has perhaps prevented a lot of downed power lines this year.
The Beatles sang, “Money Can’t Buy You Love'” but they were wrong.
It’s on sale at the United States Post Office right here in Aiken, only $7.40, so I bought two:
I have always thought that the proper color for fog lights was yellow, so I bought some of those Lamin-x fog light protectors in yellow. They would protect the lenses, make them the proper color and tie in the amber side markers and yellow turn signal bulbs. Ah, the best laid plans…
The OEM fog lights aren’t very good as fog lights and the amber color is different from either the turns signals or the side markers. Step one was to turn the useless fogs into something maybe useful, daytime running lights. Step two I accomplished today, removed the yellow Lamin-x, added some clear side markers in the front and a pair stealth bulbs for the turn signals. A subtle difference to be sure, but hey I’m happy, and when Brian is happy, everybody’s happy.
Here are some comparison images:
South Carolina has around 100 different “specialty” license plates that a person can have instead of the plain ol’ plate. I have a non-standard plate on my car as a matter of fact. One of those plates, not mine, has kicked a bit of controversy since it’s introduction in 2001 and made it all the way to the doorstep of the US Supreme Court.
The “Choose Life” plate was ruled as a violation of the First Amendment in 2003 because there was no state sponsored alternatives for the pro-choice side. Yesterday the Supreme Court refused to hear the case, upholding the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling, keeping the plates on the shelves. In an effort to allow the issuing of the “Choose Life” tags, South Carolina lawmakers introduced several bills today proposing new license plates, including ones that say “Pro Choice” or “Choose Abortion”. My favorite comes from Greenville Senator Mike Fair which will say, “Choose Death.” I wonder what the artwork for that one will be? A bloody coat hanger? Here is my entry in case they have a design contest…
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The plate came via UPS yesterday, but writing about it was knocked off the front page by the exciting garage door spring incident. Total bill from Aiken Door Repair and Service to fix it today was $90.97. Cable $6, Spring $15, Pulley $3.50, Tax 1.47 and Labor $65. When the cable snapped and the spring contracted violently it got kind of mangled when it hit the backstop, so it needed to be replaced. The pulley bearing was worn out and they refused to say if it wobbling was the definitive cause of the cable rubbing and then breaking, but it could have been.