You could say it is how Hubby spent his spring break, three days of extensive auto repair on Lucifer aka The Beast. Though, the mechanic/friend helping him thinks it should now be called Patches. One way or the other, they definitely removed some demons from the vehicle.
We have interior panels on all of the doors, no holes where the air bags are supposed to be, a functioning horn (I know, who removes the horn), windshield washer fluid (completely new system), two side mirrors that you can see out of, and both windows go up and down.
They even took our the old bucket seat and floor pan (welded together they were), put in a new floor pan with supports, and a bench seat. Some day we may want to figure seatbelts, but a least the passengers wont fall through the floor.
Look at that lovely door and sanding job, we still need to paint. We did discover that much of the "cactus coating" or "demon paint" isn't very attached to the vehicle. One of these days I'll take a paint scraper to the coating and see what we get.
They even got the new tailgate on. Now we have a tailgate with a spare tire mount, extra brake light, and all the interior structure that a door should have.
On top of all that he's got a new windshield, more new shocks, and another new power steering pump (this one doesn't seem to leak, novel concept). They even replaced the clutch and adjusted the emergency brake. Oh yes, and the knee bashing/head banging shelf was removed off of the backend. Now we just need some paint, maybe a new engine, and a little more tuning and tweaking.
After all that it is less bouncy, has power steering, and runs quieter. It might become a real vehicle yet. Maybe I should call it Pinocchio now. Hubby says is Frankentracker (not Su(zuki)(Tra)cker, or Sucker).
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