Lord of the Castle

I spent the better part of the morning putting the T-Bird back together. It has been in a state of disrepair since the accident. I don’t have a garage so I worked out in the open under a shared carport.

To be truthful, I felt a little like white trash. (Just 48 hours ago, I felt like a hero!) But, the work has to get done! This is no time to stroke my ego. To quote the popular phrase, “It is what it is.” 

I called the guy who quoted the paint job. Since he won’t be able to actually start working on the car for 1-2 months, we worked out an agreement. He will let me store the car there. When he is ready to work on the car, if I decide to have him paint the car, there will be no charge. If I decide not to, I will have to pay him $100/month as a storage fee.

That is very reasonable! I did not want to sign a long term contract to rent a garage.

In response to the threat of having my car towed, I called a young man who paints cars to see if I could tow it over there and actually resume making progress on the car. 

He came over to look at the car and quoted me $8-9,000!!!

I was prepared for $5,000 but this is a really big blow! I don’t know what to do.

I received a call from the apartment complex’s office today. It is not good news.

The woman who helped me with all the leasing paperwork called to tell me that they are going to tow away my project car tomorrow!

She said that they are not allowed to have unregistered cars on their property!

I was not expecting this.