I suppose it's a little odd to call November through February "winter" in Texas. I have been conditioned to think of the four seasons here as "Early Summer", "Summer", "Late Summer", and "Not Summer". But I figure these months are the only time in Texas that I can get away with driving a car with a broken air conditioner and not go through a stick of deoderant a week and have to change my shirt three times a day. But anyway, I digress...

$300 picked me up a 1989 Chevy Celebrity sedan, 4-cylinder, 4-door, automatic, bench seat, column shift, white on blue. It runs. It drives. It has a new battery, new radiator, and a newly installed cylinder head and head gasket set. Just the parts alone are worth more than the $300 I paid for this thing. Everything works but the AC, and it needs a new compressor and changed over to R-134a. I've got quotes anywhere from $600 to $1200 to have that done. So *IF* this car survives the next 3 months without major incidents, I may very well treat it to a new compressor and all that stuff.

My first goal will be to detail the thing beyond recognition...what most people would call "polishing a turd". Except that I have beautiful turds...