This is how I lovingly refer to the vintage Chevy Tahoe that spends a lot of her time in storage in my Back Forty, waiting patiently for her girl to return from paradise and drive her to the snowy mountains every winter.  I refer to her this way because her Oregon license plates read XDM442.  

Usually, after almost a year of neglect, she starts right up.  This morning, not so much.  This is the way she looked under the hood:

That’s a little corrosion going on there.

Actually, the battery worked fine, but there seemed to be a problem getting her out into the alley.  Ended up taking three different AAA tow trucks and a team of really friendly and helpful  drivers and neighbors to make it work without taking down the fence.

Now we are waiting to hear when she will be road ready.  She should be back on her feet in a day or two.  If she doesn’t make it, it will be like losing a beloved member of the family!