{"id":709,"date":"2011-04-13T12:40:37","date_gmt":"2011-04-13T20:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/?p=709"},"modified":"2011-04-14T07:32:50","modified_gmt":"2011-04-14T15:32:50","slug":"709","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/2011\/04\/13\/709\/","title":{"rendered":"Spares."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jalopyjournal.com\/?p=11982\">a recent post on the Jalopy Journal about using a 39 Ford as a daily driver<\/a>, and it got me thinking. The author talked about return on investment vs. the ever-present fear of breakdown when taking a 70-year-old automobile on the road every day; ultimately he found the satisfaction outweighed the worry and determined to press onward. Among <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jalopyjournal.com\/forum\/showthread.php?t=579402\">the thoughtful and well-considered responses to the post<\/a>, I found, among other things, an excellent quote from Kerouac&#8217;s On the Road, lots of support and admiration, and some good advice for the inevitable breakdown. And a list of helpful items to have in a toolkit:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Radiator hoses, both upper and lower<\/li>\n<li>Pipe clamps for same<\/li>\n<li>A rotor<\/li>\n<li>A fresh coil<\/li>\n<li>A starter (heh)<\/li>\n<li>Fan belt<\/li>\n<li>Fuel filter<\/li>\n<li>Fuel pump<\/li>\n<li>Fuses<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This list is something I intend to work on in the next month as the weather gets warmer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read a recent post on the Jalopy Journal about using a 39 Ford as a daily driver, and it got me thinking. The author talked about return on investment vs. the ever-present fear of breakdown when taking a 70-year-old automobile on the road every day; ultimately he found the satisfaction outweighed the worry and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-future-plans","category-purchasing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s58Ac2-709","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=709"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":711,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions\/711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}