The first thing I did was go to Advance Auto and have them test the battery. They told me the battery was good and also fully charged. This definitely got me thinking it was something else or some wires had been chewed. I called my dad and he came into town to look at it with me. He brought some battery terminal cleaners and cleaned the terminals. That did the trick! We decided to take it out for a ride and I opened it up a little bit. I do a decent amount of cruising up and down Central Avenue (main street) in Marshfield. I stopped to take a quick picture.
I found out they do some cruises on a regular basis in Auburndale, which is just down the road from Marshfield. They were going to go to Lindsey Bar, which is down the road from my parent’s house so my parents decided to go with me. We pulled into the parking lot and people started to gather. There were a lot of people my parents knew from when they had their 1970 Mach 1 Mustang.
The cruise itself was fun. The mishaps that happened early in the cruise weren’t. Upon coming out of the parking lot, I bottomed out on a pothole. The only damage I noticed was my license plate was a little bent.
Upon coming out, the hood wasn’t fully latched, so I had to pull over and get it fully latched. Then I ran over this piece of garbage on the road. After that everything went smooth. I didn’t stop at Lindsey Bar because my parents needed to get home. I did take the car out a bit more during the rest of my visit to Wisconsin. I also took a cruise up main street Marshfield. It is always fun driving around in the Cougar. It is sitting ready and waiting to go when I come up again later in the summer.