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Building Chassis. Well, Sort Of.

Posted on August 24, 2020August 24, 2020 by Modern Sports Cars of Arizona

I picked up another DIY project. Two actually. I needed to put together two new to us, single-bed, wooden bed frames, since the boys had outgrown their five-year-old bunk-bed. The misses got the bed frames, including head and foot boards for both, second-hand. However, one of the frame sets didn’t include cross-slats. Pre-work With none…

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Finally, Fixed Those Damned Fenders

Posted on May 24, 2020May 24, 2020 by Modern Sports Cars of Arizona

Again, I have our current coronavirus pandemic to thank for helping me have the time to finally fix the fenders of our resident 2010 Toyota Corolla SE. That single-owner beast has clocked over 192,000 miles. I’ve told its owner that our mission is to get it past 300,000 miles. And, yes, it’s quite doable with…

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Keeping HVAC Pipes Cool

Posted on April 29, 2020April 29, 2020 by Modern Sports Cars of Arizona

With COVID-19 keeping a lot of us on lock-down, I find myself doing a lot of (ahem) home improvement stuff. Dare I say, it has been interesting reviving skills I haven’t used in decades. Of course, the Internet, makes it a whole lot easier, especially YouTube. A project I had been putting of a while…

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Revive All Muscle Memory by Adding More RAM

Posted on February 26, 2020March 11, 2020 by Modern Sports Cars of Arizona

This is something I’ve been wanting to post for a while, and now here we are. As I’ve written in some past posts, I’m no uber-mechanic, but I do have little projects I take on to get me into the habit of working with my hands to figure out certain technical challenges. The purpose: to…

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Home Depot Classic Car Build

Posted on December 12, 2019December 12, 2019 by Modern Sports Cars of Arizona

Nine…month…later. Finally, the follow-up post about actually building the Home Depot Classic Car with my boys. Check out the original post, Home Depot Classic Car, for more context. It didn’t take the whole nine months to build the car of course, life just got in the way. The actual building was done over a couple…

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Tools Of The Trade

Posted on April 29, 2019April 29, 2019 by Modern Sports Cars of Arizona

A couple of months ago, that lovely WRX I drove back East, made its way Southwest. To show my gratitude, I volunteered my services to help swap the snow tires for the much-preferred performance tires. Despite the skill between the owner (a buddy of mine) and I, and the possession of a proper hydraulic jack,…

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Home Depot Classic Cars

Posted on March 18, 2019March 18, 2019 by Modern Sports Cars of Arizona

Last winter I came home to find two small see-through packages by my door. I’m not sure who left them. I’m guessing one of my neighbors, who knows I have kids and love cars, dropped them off. They are branded Classic Car kits, from Home Depot. This will be the next project. I will do…

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Unclogging The Drain To Train

Posted on March 10, 2019March 10, 2019 by Modern Sports Cars of Arizona

I decided today I would tackle two home projects, after putting them off for at least a month. The first, was carpet cleaning. This was long overdue because I hadn’t decided how I wanted to get this cleaning done. Do I pay for cleaners? Do I buy a machine? Do I just rent a machine?…

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Using A Skate To Educate (Myself)

Posted on January 27, 2019March 4, 2019 by Modern Sports Cars of Arizona

After weeks of planning, and getting parts, I finally got down to some maintenance of my kid’s roller-blades. This is part of a series of my use of small technical projects, to bolster confidence in tackling large automotive ones. YouTube, common-sense, and a bit of courage have been instrumental on this journey. My desire to…

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Power Steering Fluid Transfusion

Posted on January 21, 2019March 4, 2019 by Modern Sports Cars of Arizona

Once again I got the opportunity to assist on an automotive project that I had no experience doing before. I got to help with a power steering fluid transfusion. Power steering is the reason your arms don’t fall of from exhaustion, after doing a three-point turn. Some of you late Gen-Xers and earlier drivers may…

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