Junkyard stuff

I actually found another TE38 Corolla wagon. Unbelieveable. I got the rear seatbelts that I needed, a few fiddlybits, and a new glove box liner. Rock on.

new battery

Last night, I went to return the rented movies and the battery literally popped and fizzed. After a month of being overcharged when the voltage regulator went out, it finally died.

Now it has a new Die Hard battery in it and all's well. I hope.

Then today, I went by the Mitsubishi dealership to pick up something and the sales guys swarmed my wagon to find out more about it. One guy offered me $1000 on the spot to buy it. Ha!

Surprise!

Surprise, surprise!

I was bored, sitting in traffic last night staring at the steering wheel in my wagon. It's some odd looking Momo wheel with a big triangular vinyl center piece with no detail on it other than a small "MOMO" stamp embedded in the bottom point. In the past, I idly wondered how it came off, but now that I was bored in traffic, I just pried it off to see what happened. Lo and behold, it looks kinda like the Momo Corse - black anodized center with a rounded top - but without the bezel around the horn button, more like the Monte Carlo. I did a brief bit of poking around on the 'net to figure out what model steering wheel it is, but no luck. It's probably a very old model. Oh, and the horn button has the old school katakana TO-YO-TA logo! Very very cool...

I'll eventually get around to taking a picture of it.