11/11/2025
My father’s family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip.
Folks, I done had another birthday. Another year down. Another on the horizon.
The plan was: “Hey, come over early for our birthday dinner and we’ll work on Emma!”
My wife and I *did*, in fact, work on Emma, but Seattle traffic had other ideas for our friends.
Hours. We worked for hours on Emma. Meticulously removing padding and rust.
We used some help, too:
The Automotive Goo Gone is… fine. It’s fine.
The purple Death Wheel, on the other hand, is remarkable. It’s the consistency of coral, if you’ve ever experienced that. It gets right down to metal.
Oh, also, the separator between the back seat and the trunk came in!
Another thing that kind of just… happened. I decided that the drain plugs needed to come out. They were held in by screws and a very thick and sticky gasket maker. Kind of like tar. Went ahead and ordered new ones.
Finally, we cleaned up the actual, literal rat’s nest in the back seat – as previously discussed.
All-in-all, we’ve made very good progress, and are really close to being able to lay down some rust converter, seal some holes (incidentally, I started putting tape underneath the holes, but not surprisingly, tape does not stick to dirt very well), lay some sound deadener, and then carpet.
Sub-point: I also finally took out the speedometer so that I could put in bulbs. They’re in. No idea if it works yet, because the bulb casing themselves ground to the speedometer housing. We’ll see!
Sub-point II: Part of the reason I removed the speedometer was to have a look at the heater switch. I suspect that it’s all gunked up and not reacting correctly. I bought some Deoxit to hopefully remove decades of carbon and crap. They mfers are like 120 bucks on sale. I’d rather not buy a new one.
A lot to do still, but I’m happy with the progress we’ve made!
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