Things are running pretty smoothly with the trucks. In fact, a little better than Tom expected. The guy we bought them from towed the white ’79 over first. Its interior looked far worse than its exterior, though, as Tom said, we can spruce up the interior all we want. What matters most is which one’s more mechanically sound.

Just after 9:30, Mary and Dave showed up. Naturally, I didn’t get an apology from Mary, but she was cool and so was I. She still hasn’t gotten my email, but we’ve both gotten over it and have apparently moved on. I can’t control how she may react when she reads my email, but I’d think she’d understand where I’m coming from as I did her, and so be it.

After taking the tires off the white truck and putting them in Dave’s truck, the 3 of them climbed into Dave’s truck and headed out for the ugly ’77 pea-green one. Tom drove the car back while Mary and Dave towed the truck. With this one, it was the other way around. Its interior was in better condition than the exterior.

After Mary and Dave came in for a few minutes to see the dolls and animals, though Mary seemed reluctant to at first, they left and Tom inspected the trucks to get a general idea of what needed fixing. According to him, the green one’s not “junk.” He doesn’t think it’ll need much, though he could end up finding something seriously wrong with the engine. He hasn’t gotten that far yet. So far, though, it’s looking like we’ll take parts from the white one and end up using the green one. Once the white one’s stripped of all we want, we’ll give it to a junkyard for $100. As for the fate of the car, we don’t know yet. Obviously, we’ll want to keep it around as a backup for a while, then it too, may end up getting sold.

We hosed them down, both inside and out, since they were both caked with dust.