Well...the guy said it ran when he parked it 4 years ago, and he meant to rebuild the carb and somehow lost it. So I hauled it home and fogged the pistons.It wasn't stuck but I did it anyway. My neighbor gave me a carb...been sitting in a box on the shelf for about twenty years and you guessed it...it worked when he put it there. So I wallered out the mounting holes on the carb with a chainsaw file and finally got it to slide over the studs on the intake, took the pan off and scooped out the handfuls of gooey sloppy crap that had been there for 54 years now (it's a 52 3600 with a 216 and 4-speed...all original except the wallered out carb that Roy gave me). Added new plugs, cap, rotor, condenser, honed out the master and wheel cylinders and kitted them, got all the electrical working, put new used radials on the 15 inch split rims and headed down the road....44 miles a day to work and back...every day...at a blazing 45 mph...and loving every minute of it! No need for body work...surface rust only. It's actually a real pretty shade of rust, sorta brownish copperish with a hint of faded green paint here and there. Will get some pictures on one of these days. Plan to drive it til it blows and then figger it out....probly change to 235 and put 1/2 ton axles and driveshaft in her. In the meantime, I'll just shake rattle and roll on down the road with that old 2-piece driveshaft jarring my teeth out until something flys apart. So far so good. 97000-plus and still going....and going!
