Well, I tried to take the Trans-Am out for a drive today. It had been awhile. And for exactly that reason, I didn't get to go for a drive. Instead, I got to take apart the carburetor – to clean out the gunk that clogged something up. More finely, because idiot – lazy – me – left it parked for six weeks or so with a tankful of ethanol-laced gas, which I pumped into the tank because I didn't have time to drive the 12 miles to the station that has real (100 percent) gas rather than 10 percent  ethanol-laced "gas."

And so, when I went to start up the TA after its long sit, it did – but it didn't run very well. It idled like a 95-year-old with a lung full of phlegm which is pretty much the deal here. The carb is all gunked yp. So I had to find the time to take the carb apart to clean it out. All the little passageways – jets and such – and check that none of the soft parts, such as the float and the power piston – had been dissolved into goo.