After some trial and error with the carburetor adjustments, we managed to keep the Chevy engine running once we got it started. Now it was driveable around town.
Now to get it into the Christmas spirit! We've had a tradition in my family of hanging Christmas wreaths on the front of our cars for years. So my wife got a nice big wreath and zip tied it to the bull bar. But that wasn't quite enough for me.
As a surprise for her, I bought a small cigarette lighter inverter and two strings of multi-colored LED Christmas lights. I wrapped the two strings of lights around the roof rack and sand ladders. After running a power lead from the battery up through the center access panel in the seat box and running a ground from a bolt on the chassis, I installed a temporary cigarette lighter/12V power source just above the transmission tunnel. The inverter plugged in there and an extension cord plugged in to the inverter and ran out the front door, up the A pillar and to the light string plug. When it was all plugged in, the lights looked great!
Since it is dark from around 4:30pm til around 8am in late December, we drove the 109 with the Christmas lights on just about all the time and it really brought out the smiles, waves and "thumb's up" from people. We did the same thing last year and, as we are coming up on our third Christmas with the 109, we will do the same this year as well.
Now to get it into the Christmas spirit! We've had a tradition in my family of hanging Christmas wreaths on the front of our cars for years. So my wife got a nice big wreath and zip tied it to the bull bar. But that wasn't quite enough for me.
As a surprise for her, I bought a small cigarette lighter inverter and two strings of multi-colored LED Christmas lights. I wrapped the two strings of lights around the roof rack and sand ladders. After running a power lead from the battery up through the center access panel in the seat box and running a ground from a bolt on the chassis, I installed a temporary cigarette lighter/12V power source just above the transmission tunnel. The inverter plugged in there and an extension cord plugged in to the inverter and ran out the front door, up the A pillar and to the light string plug. When it was all plugged in, the lights looked great!
Since it is dark from around 4:30pm til around 8am in late December, we drove the 109 with the Christmas lights on just about all the time and it really brought out the smiles, waves and "thumb's up" from people. We did the same thing last year and, as we are coming up on our third Christmas with the 109, we will do the same this year as well.
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