My story starts out pretty much the same as a lot of people's I read on Mud... A guy had her on cl for what seemed like a fair price. I knew not nearly enough about what I should be looking at or what to look for. Advertised as "ran before it was parked a few years ago" and as being "stock and complete". Exchanged a few emails then a few phone calls. Made a handshake deal over the phone since he was 4.5 hours away. Talked a friend of mine into going to pick her up since I wasn't able to get off work at the time. This is what she looked like when she got to her new home...the garage.... which, in my mind was going to be for only a couple hours while I got her running(this is where I started to climb down the rabbit hole). Put a battery in her and hit the key, clunk! huh... battery dead? No. Loose cables? No.. Upon pulling the plugs water apparently sat in the cylinders for the last decade they were so full of rust! So, if I was going to pull the motor out, I might as well pull it apart and do it right(this is where I went fully down the rabbit hole!) The second pic is up pulling her apart.
