Chapter 1I

BENCH TEST #1 — CORROSION CHECK

Are you a Southern Car or a Northern Car?
There are a couple magic words I look for when I shop for a new project — “Southern Car” or “California Car” lead the list. Yeah, one reason’s fairly obvious — the bodies will be significantly cleaner and more solid than Northern “Rust Belt” buckets. But, the second reason is that they are significantly easier to wrench on because more often than not the bolts aren’t frozen. There’s nothing more fun than busting loose seized nuts and bolts (yeah, I’m being sarcastic). There’s no pretty way to do it — penetrating oil, heat, hammer and a big old breaker bar. Here’s the question… So which are you? Are you going to allow God to turn your bolts easily during your overhaul? Or is God going to have to bust your nuts? It’s your call, just know this — you’ve never seen a breaker bar like God has.