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The  Sons of Steve Garvey are having a little car trouble:

Back in December of last year, I bought a 1977 Ford Mustang. I’d seen them quite regularly as I was out driving around, and they looked pretty good from afar… Now, I don’t know much about older cars, but I figured that if it was born in 1977, it couldn’t be in that bad shape, right? And the previous owner said he’d driven it with regularity, almost every day of every summer for the last 12 years, and it never let him down…. Well, it isn’t quite running as I’d expected. The engine seems to get caught in idle a lot. It doesn’t maintain its balance going around turns. And it seems to have lost a little bit in the pickup speed; maybe this is to be expected of older-aged cars, I don’t know. I tried to use the car for my daily commute every day of April, and despite multiple checkups and oil changes, it doesn’t seem like it’s getting any better. And my neighbors are starting to snicker, particularly once they see it sputtering back to my garage, sometimes rather quickly just after getting out of the driveway.

The curious thing is, I went to my mechanic, and he said the best thing to do was to continue to drive the car every day. There wasn’t anything wrong, he said, fundamentally. I implored with him about the noticable lack of power, the sputtering out of the driveway only to return to the garage, the fact that the car drove a lot heavier than I had originally anticipated. However, my mechanic was firm in attesting that only driving it every day would get it back on track. In fact, he wouldn’t even admit the Mustang into his shop, as he was resolute that I had to keep driving it until it started humming again…

Well, I’m not a car guy, but it sounds like quite a pickle.  If you have any ideas, drop them a line…

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