Last you guys heard Brett and I were siting in a dirt lot in Scottsdale looking at a Torino on a Trailer.
I realized I had not brought any of my cable locks
Looking the car over we noticed that one of the rear wheels only had one lug nut. Turns out RS was waiting on a set of studs to match the front 12mm stuff. Last min thrash to get the thing on the ground and out the door resulted in only one nut on the drivers rear.
All right it's not the end of the world just head down the street, find an auto parts store and pick up some nuts and a couple locks.
Scottsdale land of clogged streets and medians everywhere perfect place to drive around lost in a crew cab longbed. Hey check it out a tire store let's head there. I walk in the store and guess what.... everyone in AZ is tire shopping.
Patience, just stay calm, don't let the lack of sleep and this line get to you no big deal. 15 min later I get to the front of the line. Hey I need some open ended lug nuts. "we don't have any" WTF are you a tire store?
Where is an auto parts store? COme to think of it where is Brett? Oh yea he said he was heading across the lot to McDonalds. I'll just call him. He what do you know the cell service here isn't working, imagine that. I'll just drive over there.
Right about the time I get to the other side of the lot Brett picks up the phone and the call doesn't drop. "where are you at?" "I'm back at the tire store"
Of course you are, of course.
Hey at least Home Depot down the street had a couple locks and good directions to the auto parts store. Now the auto parts store had lugs but you know we aren't positive which size. 1/2 20 or 12mm 1.5? I'll get both. Luckily I remember that I only have one socket in the truck, a 1/2" drive breaker bar and a 13/16 socket for the lugs on my truck and trailer. I check these lugs and they are 3/4" so I'll grab an deep socket off the 1/2" drive rack. Man I'm glad I remembered that.
Back we head to the car. "Brett we still have plenty of time to enjoy the show."
Back at the trailer the 1/2 lugs aren't it. Wait the 12mm aren't either. WTF? I look at the bag the 12mm lugs were in. 12mm 1.125. I hate when things are in back and the guy grabs the wrong one. I hate it more when I'm to stupid, or in to much of a hurry, to double check the bag before I leave the store.
We lock the trailer up and back to exchange the lugs.
Back at the store and I swap the lugs. We have what we need let's go park the truck and go to the show. When we get back we'll just hitch the truck up and throw the lugs on no need to do it now. Yea you guessed it this or something else I did in the last hour was a mistake.
We park the truck and hop on the bus to BJ. I won't try to describe the show but BJ Scottsdale is worth a trip at least once in a lifetime if you are into cars. We hang out with Neal as the first two of the RS builds go across the block. Like I said he's a great guy and shooting the sh@# with him was a good time. Both the Duece and the truck fetch a pretty good price.
There is a lot to see so Brett and I head off to look around. Stop and buy some overpriced food and beer and take it all in.
A couple hours into it I'm beat and said lets find a spot to sit down for a bit. Right outside the main tent there is a HUGE big screen of the auction inside and a few golf carts parked the provide perfect bleachers for us to relax.
After a half hour the cart driver shows up and asks are you guys going along with us? Thanks but were out.
Man I feel 100% better, my batteries are recharged. All that BS is behind us smooth sailing from here on out.
Maybe
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