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eorWith the new engine and clutch, recent transmission, improved tires and wheels, and even improved bumpers, the van is a much changed vehicle. It's strange to go out in the morning and assume it's going to start. It's downright odd to have to take it easy on the accelerator in order to gradually take off from a stop, I used to have to floor it just to get rolling. To stop for gas without the gut wrenching fear of not being able to start again is novel.
But... but it's a different car. It's like waking up to find the acerbic drunk you've lived with for years has a Martha Stewart smile and drinks nothing but V8. Over six years I'd gotten kind of use to the abuse, in a sick masochistic way. Now it's different.
"There was nothing left of mine inside,
not even the broken radio." - John Wesley Harding "The Red Rose & The Briar"
I can get used to it. It will just take some time to adapt.
But... but it's a different car. It's like waking up to find the acerbic drunk you've lived with for years has a Martha Stewart smile and drinks nothing but V8. Over six years I'd gotten kind of use to the abuse, in a sick masochistic way. Now it's different.
"There was nothing left of mine inside,
not even the broken radio." - John Wesley Harding "The Red Rose & The Briar"
I can get used to it. It will just take some time to adapt.
