Walter Moore

Finally the engine is back in the car, after 3 years and 5 months.

I hate to remove it... Wonder if I can paint around it...

Who would believe that you could buy brand new fenders for a 35 year old car, from the DEALER? To think that I wasted an entire summer trying to patch up a pair of fenders with bondo and fiberglass...

This is the transmission that came with the car. It is clearly from a much newer vehicle because you can see the neutral switch wires, which are not used on a 1971. The P.O. cut the floor opening to make this work. The inner shift boot doesn't seal as a result.

I bought a full set (4) of these on E-Bay in January of 2004. It took me nearly a full year to get them clean.

I had the gas tank coated with a plastic sealing compound at a local radiator shop. When they pulled it out of the cleaning tank (before they coated it) the solvent was draining out of nearly every surface on the tank. It was like a sieve.

I re-used this thing, after I tested all the remaining connections and squeezed the clips tighter. I just put the melted circuit on an inline fuse. There must be a dozen of those behind the dash anyway.

I took both sides off the car and used a sawsall to cut the spindle pin, then took the parts to a machine shop to press the pin remains out of the strut.

Strut and control arm off the car ready to be taken to the machine shop to have the stupid spindle pin pressed out.

Left side brakes re-assembled.

Right side brakes re-assembled.

Front View of re-assembled engine. Paint color is "GM Corporate Blue". Not correct, but looks OK.

It actually looked pretty good without paint, except for the scratches.

I call this my naked Fairlady picture. :-) I used it for my user icon for three years.

From what I could tell this was the first time that the area in front of the windshield had ever been painted.

Roof without paint.