Pneumonia sucks! I have had pneumonia twice. I hope you get over it quickly.

There is a vaccine, an actual vaccine, for pneumonia.

Morning youse guys.

Nothing like starting the engine, opening the hood in the dark, and seeing little blue flashes. My wife's 95 Z28 still used plug wires. When we had to replace the distributor on the front of the engine. I asked about replacing the plug wires, the mechanics face turned white as he said, "Not unless they are bad, they are PITA to route."

I can’t imagine how cluttered that engine compartment mighta looked as compared to a vehicle from the ‘60s or early’70s.

With the way they design engines now, I don’t even think about touching too many things on our cars.

On many vehicles you cannot even see the engine, it's under all sorts of plastic.

Rain today, snow tomorrow. Getting a few things done when I can.

Overall, not much going on here.

After starting the simple process of changing out the plugs I learned some unanticipated things. The 4 cylinder engine has 8 plugs! WTF? I learned later that this is done to get a little extra power and a cleaner burn. One fires near the intake and one fires milliseconds later near the exhaust to try to ensure all fuel is consumed and leftover vapors don't push out with the exhaust (cleaner emissions).

The other thing I learned is you have to be a contortionist in order to get at the plugs for the cylinder in back by the firewall and you are guaranteed to lose all the skin and any blood going to your knuckles.

Other than that, I loved that little truck. I didn't have any problems with it. I traded it in when I upgraded to buy a larger new Chevy pickup. That was a bad choice. I have not and will not buy any GM product again. That thing cost me so much time and money to fix issue after issue, recall after recall. I swear it was built on a Monday after SuperBowl Sunday by a team of hungover workers in the slums of Detroit.

High in the 70's today, and the overnight low is forecast for 36......brrr...

Nice looking car. My younger brother is on the lookout for a '69 Z28. Most we have seen are asking north of $100K if in good shape. 🤦

My buddy, who is the guy that got me into cars, has a ‘69 SS 396. Blue with white racing stripes. After 30+ years at Honda America, he and his wife retired and moved to Vegas. Dunno iffin’ he took the car with him and he’s looking to sell it but iffin’ your brother is willing to “settle” for an SS, I can make inquiries with Derek. LMK.

Iffn he wanted a BB 396 I would have sold him my '69 Chevelle SS at a good price. He has always lusted for that SB 302 combo in the Z28 package. He is a strange dude in some ways. He has a mint '77 Ford F150 4WD in his garage with about 33K miles. He bought it new and parked it due to gas prices back then.

HHD Ram, danm and all youse smoky folks.