153. I dont belieeeeeve it!

This latest update is being typed with a bloody big grin on my face, it has been a while but! I think we may just have cracked it. Its been nearly 5 years since I last sat in the car at the Hot Rod Drags in 2021 its been nearly four years since the car last went up the track with Steve in the cockpit and three years since the engine last ran. Since then finances, time and life got in the way. On more than one occasion Steve has threatened to cut the thing up and quit, it has been that hard.

So once again I need to thank a lot of people, dedicated people who have helped out in the last year or so. without who this car would be in a scrap heap somewhere. So many thanks to Jim, Nigel, Moss and Moss's boss, Wayne Colliver for sorting out the chassis for us, Mr Mopar John O'Sullivan Steve's wife Kerry who has had to clean up the mess Steve makes and put up with him out of the house for days on end and of course anyone else that I might have forgotten

So Yesterday evening after a monumental effort Steve re-wired that car with the drive train in place. Just about everything checked out, he couldn't start the car yet as he still had to fill up everything with the appropriate oil.

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Then this evening Steve filled up everything that needed filling up and with a little help from Jim and Nigel the first attempt to try and fire up the sleeping monster was tried.

Now obviously the car usually runs on methanol but with an empty tank a quick squirt of three year old petrol was used. So onto the second attempt this was far more successful and gave Steve the sound he needed to prove the car or more importantly the engine was OK.

 I can just about make out a wry smile on Steve's face OK so the car runs folks, now all the little bits need to be buttoned up and the floor panels and bodywork replaced and then.......... ......Dragstalgia here we come. Well Steve and the team, I will have to watch the live stream