Can't Pass Up A Bargain

Not me. Hubby.

A car bargain anyway. Especially if it isn't running. I think he takes it as a personal challenge on his mechanical skills: how cheaply can I get it running again.

I'd show you pictures of Ruby, but Blogger.com STILL won't let me upload pictures. So you get to use your imagination.

Picture a red Trio. No body damage, but some peeling clear coat on the spoiler, hood, and door trim. Nice interior.

Picture Hubby getting to use his new toy...the Kar Kaddy.

Picture us stopping over and over and over and over because when he'd hit the brakes, the Kaddy and the Trio were swinging off to the side. A sign that one of the brakes was grabbing harder than the other.

I can't tell you how many times poor Hubby took off a Kaddy tire to adjust the brake. In the heat. Over and over.

Picture him jacking up one side of the Kaddy. Taking off the lug nuts. Taking off the tire. Taking off the big round thing over the brakes (is that the drum?). Spinning it around and around. Then putting it all back. In the heat.

Picture Hubby rolling around on the ground doing Parking Lot Yoga to stretch out the kinks in his back.

He finally struck on the idea to disable the trailer brakes all together until we get home and he could fix it properly.

So we stopped and had lunch and I stayed there and read (in the air conditioning) while he went to the hardware store and bought a doo-hickey to stick in the thingy-ma-bob.

And it worked. The Trio quit swinging to the side when he'd brake.

He ordered a new something or other and he replaced it the other day and has declared the Kar Kaddy good as new.

Handy Hubby.