Dick has been at Lincoln Auto Electric for almost a week now…and he hasn’t been touched. (Ruben did tell us that it was OK to hop his fence, so that’s how I’ve been getting home lately).

That’s the best part about Ruben. I tell him to take his time with the vehicle, and so he just doesn’t touch it. After the incident with the shouter, I’ve been glad to be off the streets lately. Let our old spots “cool off” a bit before we reinvade.

Thought I’d post some pics of the reason why we’re at the mechanic–and you’ll wonder why we weren’t there sooner.

This is just the beginning of it…all rusted out, smashed on the bottom as a result of constant curb scraping.


This rigging here was done after our second fire incident. It’s not done well, so it’ll probably break off again soon if we hadn’t done anything.

Here you can see how rusted out both of our mufflers are. Anytime you start Dick, he’s terrible loud and smelly. Terribly smelly.

Driver’s side—doesn’t even extend beyond the RV wall. That wall there–it’s black. Meaning each time it’s blowing hot exhaust out the side we have potential to burn down.

The rust has really taken it’s toll on this guy. I’m really surprised no one has died of carbon monoxide poisoning.

I’ll post pics of the brand new exhaust…whenever we’re done.