1000 Miles To Go

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Approximately 1000 miles from home, I purchased this 1968 Pontiac Bonneville off Facebook Marketplace. The ad stated some things like "daily driver", "ready to drive anywhere", and "has plenty of power". Welp, none of those things turned out to be true. This boat barely hits the baseline of a running and driving vehicle, severely leaks every fluid, and needs just about one of everything. And to my surprise, despite being a GM product, there's almost no parts for this car available locally between between Colorado and Minnesota. So, everything just is what it is. Me and my girlfriend spent 5 days in Vail, Colorado, to celebrate our 5 year anniversary and so I could patch up whatever I could on this pile before I doubtfully drove it home to Minnesota in a day and a half.

Chapters:
00:00 - Doesn't run
02:14 - Patching spark plug wires and more
06:13 - Brake work
19:13 - Cleanup
20:20 - Power windows, nice
22:14 - Date night, Vail village
25:30 - Oil change and fluid check
28:30 - An unfortunate series of events at the gas station
31:08 - Leadville, Colorado
34:22 - Alignment issues
40:06 - How do the spark plugs look?
43:06 - Flooding carburetor
45:55 - A quick break
48:00 - A few more things before leaving
50:40 - The drive home
58:47 - Made it
1:00:52 - cat