Something good happened to my old truck today. I needed to run to the liquor store this morning, so I started her up.

She's been going through issues, 250k on her, and I've poured a bunch of my dwindling stash into bringing her back.

My mechanic Thomas has done a lot, rebuilt the Weber carb, new head gasket, there's new plugs and wires, and she should be running great, except she's not been. Hard to start, takes a long time to warm up before I hit the highway, and rumbles for five seconds when I shut her off.

Today, none of those things happened. It's like she pushed a turd that was clogging her up out her tail pipe. Started in an instant, and purred. I let her warm up for a minute, then roared up the hill to the store. She's running trucking great!

Maybe I need a roadtrip.