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so does my engine. More work is needed though.

..These are the days of our lives. Mine? pretty crap lately. Insane mood swings, headaches and plain un-rest. That hasn't stopped me from going up to the shop late at night to get some work done.

This is just a birthday message for one of the quieter contributors to this blog, Needs More Speakers. Happy Birthday Aaron. Everybody stalk him and leave really strange birthday cards around his car. Some with clowns. Damn clowns.

Things at the shop are often fun, with rivets and a drill begin silliness and in this case ugliness. "Wanna make a roll pan today?" I messaged Andrew, "Hells yes" he responded. Here's what we started out with. '84 Cressida, rotten as fawk and missing a bumper. After some hammering and cutting we had cleaned the area to install the ugly pan. Thanks to me for the horrible ideas, and thanks to Andrew...

Took a while, but the internet moguls finally decided on a term. "Rat-Look" is a modern take on the ever so famous rat rod, but the requirements of a light chassis and a big motor crammed in seem to have dissipated from the once functional, and very much O.G. "Rad Rod". Still interesting none the less, but I will always find the latter term more interesting, no matter how excited I get for VW caddies rolling past me with little to no sheen.