79 already going to 95 with expected HI of 110. Yuk.
My dinner went nicely last night, except when I opened the takeout bags from this very nice Italian restaurant,
they had forgotten the extra red sauce. I think the mark of any Italian restaurant is how good their basic red sauce is.
Visions of the Sopranos making their sauce over that stove...
headed out to wash my car while the sun is low. Maybe I'll get to the truck, but probably not. I'm going to get the truck detailed next week so might as well
let them wash it; they have to anyway. I'm half way through waxing the car, little bit at a time, my wax on wax off arm long ago gave up in protest. Truck is just too big to do, and it sits out in the sun all day so time to give it a little tlc. The Ram has been a remarkably good truck, reliable, so I hope to keep it awhile. Though once in a while at start I hear a light valve tap for a few seconds. Read about it online, widespread, called a "Hemi tick". Only at start, no one seems to be worried about it.
However, I've never found a tick or a tic I liked...
Truck is averaging 16 mpg with almost all of that local driving. Lot better than 14 in my Suburban a few years back. I think the lowest I ever went was 12mpg.
Car averages about 22 mpg. No Prius but not too bad. If I were driving more miles, I'd likely find something more economical, and reliable...now the parking brake is unhappy and I have a park brake fault light on. Electric parking brake made by Brembo. I think it needs a tap with a hammer; lack of use. Thankfully it's a fail off circuit, and not locked on... So back in it goes to the shop. Also looking at replacing front rotors to get rid of brake pulse at low speeds. Apparently a common problem which surprises me since I assumed the Brembo components were very high quality and should have been fade/heat proof. Apparently not, and luckily there are lots of replacements at a hundred dollars apiece, not some crazy amount. The car was originally designed to go 155mph, which it is limited to, likely will go faster but limited due to tires. So they upgraded the brakes to match, but I doubt anyone who uses this style of car ever took it over 80mph. There's just no place to drive fast, without a fast ticket, on the East Coast. Now on those 80mph stretches in Montana where you can go 90, now that's pretty fast, but sure no 155mph. I had my brother's Corvette up to 125 mph once, long ago, and that was plenty fast for me, even on a very long straight.
I have to wonder where in England one could drive a car 155mph...Eric? Likely more to show up the Germans on the Autobahn.
And my model and color car is in the movie Spectre, the older black Jag XJR sedan that sadly gets t-boned in the movie. Bond, James Bond...
