New sticker added 10 horspower!

Ok . . . maybe not . . . but I've wanted to have a pic with a car worthy of GRM for a while. This one I think will keep me happy. At $600 purchase price, I could also squeak it into the $200x challenge at some point. I wonder how a stock motor with a shot of . . . . or maybe . . . . DOH! KISS

Anyway, just had to have a little fun with pics . . . if your wondering why they're all from the passenger side . . . it's because the driver side would leave me sitting on the floor. Hehehe.

Today I got the steering fixed. It turns out the shaft running to the front steering joint was missing from the column. It was in a 5-gallon bucket-o-parts that I had in the trunk and labeled to boot! (A little English humor . . . trunk/boot . . . never mind!) The only problem came with trying to get the shaft in there with no other able bodied assistants. I ended up taking the u-joint and wrapping a towel under it to support it in the engine compartment. I could then slide the assembly in and fiddle with it enough to get it to go together. I also had one other minor snafu with the infamous plastic rings that go into the collapsing part of the steering shaft. I couldn't get the shaft to go in all the way until I got the plastic out of the way. For future reference, if I need to replace the bottom bearing, there's a guy that has a plastic bushing that should be an excellent replacement. I also found a spot for keys to be made, I'm missing the door and glovebox keys.