Baldo by Hector D. Cantú and Carlos Castellanos for May 10, 2024

Don’t do that until you fix the trunk weatherstripping and put a piece of plywood in the bottom to keep everything out of the water. Make sure the trunk lock key works.

Many years ago a had an old Chevy delivery van we used as storage

At least it was parked on the side of the house, behind a fence

Baldo, you need to invest in a couple of portable storage bins for your clothes, and stack them neatly in your room. Then get back to focusing on that car!

A dangerous precedent. No room for your subs.

Well, at least he found a use for the old car.

That’s a bad habit to start, mijo.

No one wants to see a run-down junker on cement blocks in their neighborhood. It’s an insult to the community.

Nick Knight had a ‘62 Caddy, because of occasional need for large trunk space.

Shifted year of this car again.

The interior of an old car’s leaky trunk is going to smell something terrible.

We’ve had discussions about what year Baldo’s Impala is. Judging by the taillights, and the Impala logo on the rear quarter, I think it’s a 1964. In other strips the front looked more like 1962. But then it’s a comic strip. Also, even rough Impala convertibles of that era cost a fortune now.

Attaboy Baldo….

For a car on blocks, it sure gets around. Sometimes it faces the house, sometimes if faces the street. No telling where they’ll find it next.

Maybe donate some of the stuff?

just put them in weather seal bags, the bat and basketball are on there own

I used to work at a Goodyear in my late teens until about 20. We did all kinds of work, but flat repairs were very common. One thing I learned, given we had to return the spare tire to the trunk and retrieve the flat most times, was that 90% of the country appears to be driving around with up to 100 pounds of junk they really don’t need in their trunk.

AND you are getting some use out of it…..

In a few months, he may find a grim case of decomposition.

We keep a lidded bin in the trunk for our hiking stuff: boots, thick socks (clean), old sneakers, water shoes, caps, small backpack, bug spray, etc. Keeps it all readily available and frees up room in the house/garage.

That whole car belongs in the dumpster.

Any port in the storm, I say.

It also helps the homeless people with used clothes.

I knew a family that did that. They had a station wagon parked in their driveway loaded with stuff.

When in college (and after for awhile) I had a 1972 Mustang. I was great and I kept long after I should have gotten rid of it as one of the reasons it was great is that it was hit in rear by a driver not paying attention and I walked out of the accident with the trunk rather smashed. Despite the work which done on it the trunk always leaked afterwards. (One feature was it was much more room in it for parking with boyfriend/later husband than his Merc Capri.) It took a lot for him to get me to give up that car. (Though no longer my favorite car I had – my Chevy small Blazer is that.)