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Morning Symphony: Project Angry Grandpa Awakens From A Restful Period


Morning Symphony: Project Angry Grandpa Awakens From A Restful Period

If I’m going to be stuck at home and I’m not allowed to play Grand Theft Auto the whole time, then I’m going to put the shop to good use. And I have…the 302 meant for the Rough Start Fox is ready for assembly, the Great Pumpkin’s five-lug swap is wrapping up (just waiting on a brake line adaptor and I need to get new front wheels at least) and even the Cruze has seen some attention. Yeah, really…I washed that money-hungry little pile, so it doesn’t look like it was involved in a tree orgy. There’s enough pollen in the air that the black Chevy looked almost green.

Note one car that isn’t mentioned: the 2006 Chrysler 300C that we call Angry Grandpa. It hasn’t been worked on for two main reasons. One, it’s dead-nuts reliable and I prefer to keep it that way. It might slam fuel next to the absolutely frugal Cruze, but the Chrysler has been rock-solid over the years. As long as I keep up with the suspension’s needs, it does just fine. The second reason was that after a three years of kicking that car’s ass, we put it into a kind of retirement. We let it breathe. It saw an occasional dragstrip pass, or lap around NCM Motorsports Park, or a highway pull, but for the most part the Chrysler has been our baby, the car we leave well enough alone because we don’t want to hurt it.

It’s also the only car in the fleet right now that’s capable of doing any sort of hooning safely.

Call me out all you wish, but I was bored and wanted to get my kicks. This time I just got it on camera. That Magnaflow cat-back kit still barks something beautiful, doesn’t it?


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