I'll try not to bore with details here. But My Dad's car was stolen a year ago by his NOW Xwife. She had the title changed so we couldn't steal it back and blah blah the drama went on for a year.

Oh yah, did I mention he has alzheimers': so…my sister and 2 attorneys had to do the divorce and the car recovery.

After 1 year, he's divorced from her and we got the 1957 Tbird back that he has owned since 1966. The car won first place/modified division after we restored it in 1968 at the nationals. (our first restoration)

Today, I cleaned it up for him cleaned out the dist cap with wd-40 drained all the fuel. and put in 3 gals of premium. The battery wasn't dead! it cranked like crazy and started up. At first it sounded bad with a knock in it and I checked the pushrods to see if they had jumped. OK, poured some oil over all the rockers, started it agin and it cleaned right up. Added a quart of tranny fluid and we drove around the block.

This is the happiest i've seen him in a long time.

Me too. This is one of the biggest reasons I didn't get my car finished and make it to Columbus last year.

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