When You Might Have a Car Problem

 

• If you’ve ever said “the electrical system is actually very simple” while holding a wiring diagram that looks like a subway map, you might have a car problem.
• If you’ve argued online with strangers about whether a bolt head should be phosphate-coated or zinc-plated, you might have a car problem.
• If you keep the old parts because “someday someone might need them,” and that someone is always you, you might have a car problem.
• If you’ve ever said, “It’s not worth restoring, but I can’t let it die,” you might have a car problem.
• If you look at a pile of rusty metal and see a finished car, you might have a car problem.
• If you own more grits of sandpaper than pairs of socks, you might have a car problem.
• If you’ve spent $500 restoring a $50 component, you might have a car problem.
• If your YouTube history is 90% “how to repair,” you might have a car problem.
• If you get excited about finding original fasteners in a long-overlooked coffee can, you might have a car problem.
• If you’ve explained to someone that the project is “only 80% done” for the last decade, you might have a car problem.
• If you open a Christmas gift and are more excited because the box the gift came in is the perfect thickness and size for a sheet metal pattern, you might have a car problem.