{"id":2000,"date":"2025-02-28T06:06:23","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T13:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/?p=2000"},"modified":"2025-03-01T06:13:53","modified_gmt":"2025-03-01T13:13:53","slug":"1st-day-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/28\/1st-day-out\/","title":{"rendered":"1st Day out"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Got the Corvette Out today and took a ride down the highway at lunch, went down to Taco Johns, mmmm &#8211; one of my favorite places!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She is a little dusty, has 3\/4 of a tank of old fuel, but ran like a beast!  Over the winter I kept &#8216;er on a  trickle charge to keep the battery fresh!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She started right up and was a lot of fun to drive, screaming down the highway!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I ran down to the car wash and blew the dust off and took it out for a nice ride after work, love this damn car!  The interior is so nice with the new seats and tinted windows, nothing to complain about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have a couple things I need to do, I have a new tachometer for the digital dash in my desk draw, the one in the dash has a couple burned out LED&#8217;s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1984 LED&#8217;s were a bit different than todays LED&#8217;s for sure!  A simple replacement to fix it, and it has been sitting in my desk for almost a year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yeah I better do it, replacing the part is easy &#8211; getting the dash panel out &#8211; NOT SO EASY!!!  It is on the list, and my new $375 power antenna is jacked up, it is under warranty but still a piain in the ass to pull out and replace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Things to do in the garage, I guess I am OK with that really!  Fun with the Vette&#8217; and she is on the road for &#8217;25!!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Got the Corvette Out today and took a ride down the highway at lunch, went down to Taco Johns, mmmm &#8211; one of my favorite places! She is a little dusty, has 3\/4 of a tank of old fuel, but ran like a beast! Over the winter I kept &#8216;er on a trickle charge to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2002,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000\/revisions\/2002"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}