{"id":72,"date":"2014-07-21T16:57:33","date_gmt":"2014-07-21T16:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/modela.airynothing.com\/?p=72"},"modified":"2014-07-21T16:57:33","modified_gmt":"2014-07-21T16:57:33","slug":"around-the-block","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/modela.airynothing.com\/?p=72","title":{"rendered":"Around the block!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m working on a post about all the things we&#8217;ve done with Daisy in the past couple weeks, but in the meantime&#8230; I got to take her around the block this weekend!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3FUPwd5gL1M?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A few tidbits that I learned this weekend:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You <em>can<\/em> pump up a Model A&#8217;s tires with a bicycle pump, but I don&#8217;t recommend it. Especially if you need to do all five of them, three of which start out at low enough presser to not register on your tire gauge.<\/li>\n<li>Experience driving a modern-day clutch does not necessarily translate well to an antique car. In a modern car, I hit the clutch and throw the car into gear as quickly as I can. In an antique car, you should take your time, letting the transmission get into neutral, and then putting into the next gear.\n<p>On our short around-the-block, I think Dave said &#8220;take your time shifting&#8221; (or similar) at least 3 times. Heh.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s a little jarring when a tire&#8217;s tube gives up all the air at once &#8211; even when the car is not moving! Dave and I were working on the tail lights, and I went to grab a tool and suddenly heard a big &#8220;whoosh&#8221;. It was the spare tire losing nearly all of its air! Probably time for a new tube.<\/li>\n<li>Sparks are scary.<\/li>\n<li>My wire strippers have a handy tool for determining the size of some common small screws.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m working on a post about all the things we&#8217;ve done with Daisy in the past couple weeks, but in the meantime&#8230; I got to take her around the block this weekend! A few tidbits that I learned this weekend: You can pump up a Model A&#8217;s tires with a bicycle pump, but I don&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/modela.airynothing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/modela.airynothing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/modela.airynothing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/modela.airynothing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/modela.airynothing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/modela.airynothing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74,"href":"http:\/\/modela.airynothing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions\/74"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/modela.airynothing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/modela.airynothing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/modela.airynothing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}