Is There an Automotive Goddess? I am asking as I want to know to whom to give thanks, you know light a candle, an offering of 20W-50, sacrifice a virgin

I am asking as I want to know too whom to give thanks, vintage cars can be fickle things and I don't want to jinx my lucky streak with all things internal combustion related.

If I may offer two suggestions as the patron saints of automobiles,  Jayne Mansfield and Diana Dors, both of whom had the good taste to own 1959 Cadillacs. The less said about Jayne and Buicks the better.

Diana 

Jayne on the hood of a 58 Caddy ambulance

I do have one very I expensive repair coming up but that is on my modern vehicle (twenty years old is modern to me).


Two weeks ago I went and started my 59 Cadillac after almost two years in storage, same with my 76 Buick Electra and my 76 Lincoln Mark IV (she had only been started in the spring).

I took both the Caddy and the Electra for short drives, they idled beautifully, I was soooo happy.

Biggest Buick ever made, 455 cubic inch V8

Last weekend Alice visited and we went to inspect my father's horde of Jaguars, MGs and Rileys. Afterwards we dusted off "old reliable" my rat rod 76 Lincoln Mark IV. The Mark has a custom built 460 V8 (witness me as I ride the highways of Valhalla)...she too roared to life like the day she left the Wixom, Michigan assembly line. The Mark is my bug out ride when the inevitable zombie apocalypse occurs. Voted one of the ten best cars to survive the rise of the undead.

We went for a short ride along a quite road that followed the shore of Lake Ontario, where Alice snapped this awesome picture.

ready to take on the walking dead....I would never walk I would take a car

Today I changed the oil & filter as well as the coolant in the Cadillac, washed off the dust and a short test drive to put in some fresh high test dinosaur juice. My father was there to lend a hand and friends dropped by with coffee.

getting gas with J and A

Detroit meets Tokyo......16 cylinders between them

looks like the South of France right? Dinner in Monaco anyone?

I was very happy to get the Cadillac serviced successfully, she is due to be used in a wedding in September so I want everything in order. Also it is great that something has being going right in my life. Career and relationships suck and my confidence has taken quite a hit. I have been plagued by panic attacks and even the thought of working on my cars filled me with fear.

So hopefully my prayers will be answered and the goddesses of chrome and flame will continue to smile upon me.

not taken in France and not my house

Hugs,

April