Topic: Meet "Suzie"...

[Arthur Dent]

Manual chokes are awesome - probably a minute or two will do it depending on tempature. They make a cheap cruise control too 

[initial_D]

A pair of very good winter boots too.  and good head gear.

[wannabe4x4ing]

The blue lights are crap.  The Xtravision are good lights, but the ones with a blue coating are for show.  The rear hatch can be held up by a sawed off hockey stick.  Put some food in the car (granola bars, chocolate bars) blankets, candles and roadside flares. 

They're not blue coated...the bulbs don't even look blue. I just told the guy I wanted those really bright lights that look blue. He looked up my car on the computer and told me these ones would work. Really nice old man, offered to install them. I told him I could just pull Suze into the garage and do it myself. I have to remove the old deck and put mine in anyways.

Good idea on the hockey stick: will save me $80.00.

I have blankets, tool kit, first aid kit, jumper cables, shovel, extra mittens, toques, socks, old winter jacket, sweat pants and a hoody (plus I'll have my suitcase full of clothing). The tin can thing is a good idea. And food of course....

I can't really use it for cruise control...can I?

[Arthur Dent]

Well the choke would work assuming you want to use a pile extra gas and cause wear on the engine (runs rich). A friend of mine was a mechanic back in Ireland and told me a story of an old Lady with an Austin Mini that they had a tough time figuring out why it ran rich but eventually figured out she used the choke lever pulled out to hold her handbag 

[wannabe4x4ing]

So I made my first trek with Suze (<- my car with a name already has a nickname,  )

Anyways, I drove up to GP this weekend to visit Riley. My friend and I filled up in RD ($25.00 to fill from empty, at 78. and left around seven pm. We had every intention of stopping in Whitecourt, spending the night and having a few drinks to celebrate round two of midterms being over. However, with freeze-up, there wasn't a room to be found and the suggestion to shack up with some Calfrac boys seemed less than appealing. So we ended up driving all the way to GP. The car didn't sputter, it didn't shake, the steering wheel stayed completely stable the whole time. Braking was smooth, shifting was smooth (there was little shifting required however, what with the highway driving and all), and aside from my stereo crapping out and having to play "Who'd You Do.." for 6 hours the trip was very enjoyable.

Oh! And it only took one tank of gas. I rolled into GP on empty (I had a Gerry Can -sp?- in the back in the event I ran out) and filled up at Esso on the way out to Mom and Dad's farm. So I basically got just over 600km on a $25.00 tank.

I LOVE THIS CAR!

[dorin]

 

[UmroAyyar]

Good stuff, it worked out fine. 

[dr_spock]

I had an ex named Suzie back in the 80s.  Argh, bad memories...

Congrats.

How about can of tire inflator sealant? 

[Julie]

Good to hear wanna. She sounds like a keeper.

[mdxtasy]

and aside from my stereo crapping out and having to play "Who'd You Do.." for 6 hours the trip was very enjoyable.

Ah, I remember those days.  When I was young, I'd do anybody.      Okay, not her....definetely not her....no not him either. 

Nice to hear the old girl got you to where you needed to go.  Got pictures of the sexy cat? 

[barrie1]

A few penny matchs and a roadside flare or 2 are also handy to have in the trunk in a dry container as well as a emergency blanket as well. You can buy the good flares at Homehardware very cheaply and they can be used to start a larger fire if the need ever arose. A small bottle of gasline deicer is another good thing to carry as well as a decent set of jumper cables and a flashlight also. Be careful on the headlight bulbs as they can draw too much and burn up the wiring if they need too much power to operate them properly. Have a good mech check this out before you spend the money as maybe the fan belt is worn or needs to be tightened to get more power out of the alt to run them as well.