October was generally a dreary, cooler than normal month in Southeastern
Michigan. I even had the top up for most of a week. On Monday it was
finally sunny and it warmed up. With the top down on my Spit bodied
GT6, I left work early to get a house project done. While stopped for a
red light, in a left turn lane, a blonde woman in a new S-class SL (she
had the top down in her car also) headed in the opposite direction,
smiled at me, gave a thumbs up and waved! This has never happened to me
before - kind of made my day. I was too dumbstruck to respond in time.
I did check the rear view mirror to see if she might have been waving at
some one else. My car is what one might call a daily driver, its been
about 14 years since I repainted it and the paint has no gloss left to
it whatsoever. I guess it must have been the sunshine.
Of course there always seems to be a pay back when something nice
happens - this morning as I drove out of my neighborhood and accelerated
onto a main road, there was an intense detonation sounding clatter. The
car has a mild bump in compression and I run midgrade gas to avoid
detonation but I have never heard this aggressive of a sounding
detonation back before I switched to midgrade (about 7 years ago, and
never heard any detonation ever since). I drove the car to work anyway,
stopped and filled the gas tank with premium gas but that did not change
things. By the time I got home the engine seemed a bit down on power,
idle was about 150 rpm lower with a pronounced engine shake. I'm off to
the garage to spend the rest of my evening to try to diagnose the
problem.
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