It's finally in my garage!!!

[Tony Pistachio <TheStash@xxxx>]

Hi,
I've included my original e-mail below since it's been a while and I also had to change my ISP.

Well I finally got my first D from Rob at PJ Grady's. It was a consignment deal and looks a whole lot better then it did before they started work on it! Although the three pages of services that were done on it weren't cheap, I was really still quite surprised at how great it looked. I had to glance at the VIN# to be sure it was the same one. They are top notch down there.

Picked it up Thursday night. I'm sure it'll be happier here driving on long winding country roads then in the city's pot hole ridden, stop-n-go nowhere mayhem. The drive out of LI was just a huge traffic nightmare. It wasn't even rush hour! I don't know how people can deal with it every day. "Thank God I'm a country boy!"

Anyway, I had a few small problems and questions:
Friday night the alternator belt fell off and Saturday the Passenger side power window stopped working. The window came to a grinding halt about midway and only goes clicl click click no matter what direction you try to go. The window was working fine before, so PJG had no reason to touch it. I took the regulator/motor out this morning and Rob is sending me a new one. I'm using a wire tie through the small hole at the rear window track bracket to keep the window up until the part comes. The belt and water pump on the other hand was just replaced. I'm sure it's just a freak occurrence but can't help asking the question to the group if this belt flying off happened to anybody else?

Is it bad to leave the doors fully open for long periods of time to air out the musty smell? Of course being garaged and disconnecting the dome light switches. It seems like a good thing (if you can keep the cat out of it) because there's less tension on the door torsion bars.

The front end creaks. Referring to a previous note "Can you grease those squeaky shocks?" How do you know it's the shocks that are squeaking and not something else?


Tony Pistachio
#10781 BDX-6324
Wappingers Falls, NY

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Tony Pistachio 
To: dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 10:14 PM
Subject: Almost there...


Just wanted to share my excitement with the group.
Today I locked in a deal with Rob Grady on #10781.
Thanks for the advice Dan!


Tony Pistachio
Soon to be #10781
Wappingers Falls, NY


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