beige car comes home

After a thorough degreasing of the engine bay and a good exterior wash or three, the car rolls into the shop.

Step one, remove the gas tank and put a good one in! The old tank was not rusted out but the pickup tube was blocked solid full of crap.

In the meantime, I clean up the interior and dig up some better carpet and seats. The passenger front seat will do but I need to scrounge through my brown collection for some good back seats and a driver's seat bottom.

It is too bad that this car was repainted in the winter way back when, the paint job otherwise was of very high quality but it just flaked off after a year or so according to its previous owner. The dust and dirt really preserved the car while it sat inside during the intervening years.

The clutch hydraulics were bad, so I swapped in another set, already bled and ready to go. Unfortunately the clutch is frozen, and hopefully I can break it free or the motor will have to come out. Sigh!

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