"You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind"

 As far as the car goes - no progress to report. I have done absolutely nothing to it since we moved into the house nearly a year ago. It has been moved between garage spaces as we have gutted, insulated, and drywalled each space.

This is the 1 car garage where the car will ultimately wind up - this picture shows the day after the drywall went up. It now has primer on the walls and the lights are mounted. We bought the paint for the walls and it should be going up tomorrow. A new garage door and opener will be installed near the end of the month. We're installing a new door at the back and I need to frame out the openings and window.

The 2-car garage needs some more work before it'll be considered 'finished' but it's close. We'd be a lot further along if not for having to replace the entire driveway. In a month or so - we should have the entire garage space fully gutted, cleaned out, re-insulated, and closed up. It's going to be a nice space when it's done.

As of right now - the car will have to wait until next Spring. I'll hand-turn the engine to keep the lubrication going inside and make sure I don't have any issues with the seals/rings. It'll need tires to be roadworthy as they're coming up on 10 years old. 

"Maybe next year" is the motto for this car.

A late Summer sprinkle of progress

The garage is quite a bit more organized today - I spent about an hour yesterday organizing the parts to put the car back together.

The pan, KF pieces and all of the related parts were picked up yesterday - should be back in 2-3 weeks, all done up, ready to go.

 The replacement engine tin was picked up yesterday - it's getting a semi-gloss black treatment to be closer to a stock appearance.  All of the wrinkle black will be gone.

The most expensive spacers possible showed up yesterday.  CSP must be employing old Amazon staff because they packed these two tiny spacers into this box filled with paper.  The freight cost was 3x what it should have been as a result.

It's fucking irritating when companies waste their customer's money because they're lazy.

Additionally, the grommet project is now complete.  I had some grommets that were not marked properly and it made their application more complicated than necessary.  I got that all worked out today...this is the grommet for the voltage regulator under the left side of the rear seat.  Original grommet.

This is the replacement grommet in its place - confirming the fit as correct.

I'm selling off the surplus grommets so identifying them and their accurate locations was important.

There will be a little bit of adhesive cleaning going on in the next few weeks.  Another task is getting the mating surface on the body for the pan as clean and straight as possible.  Short of ordering some random parts here and there it's likely to be quiet.