Climb to Superior Health Or Fall "Gracefully" Into Disease
I drove a 1972 Ford Pinto to high school. I kept it clean and waxed but I thought I was too busy to check the oil. I let it run low, and caused some serious damage to the engine and found myself with a car that would not run at all. I bought a repair book, went to the junkyard and took the a head from a wrecked Pinto and then rebuilt the engine on my car.During the three days and most of a night that it took for me to repair that engine, I could not drive it at all.After I rebuilt that engine, and understood more about how it worked, then I used an old-fashioned timing light and other tools to keep it running at optimum speed. I set up a maintenance schedule and stuck with it most of the time. I checked the oil with almost every fill-up, checked the air in the tires weekly, washed it weekly, and waxed it once a month. The car gave me great service and looked sharp until I finally traded it for another car. Odd that with the body-temple (which people cannot trade for another on thi...