These are the things that you just cannot bid into a job in advance. For example, we received an speedometer cable adapter that was supposed to work with the five-speed set up, but we discovered both ends were wrong. So carefully, very carefully... the ends were cut off the old speedometer cable and welded onto the new one. We then hand filed the worn out parts to fit (see photo). Well, then 'Murphy' (the guy with the law) came along and the speedometer head still didn't work. We'll look into that again later.

The next thing that 'Murphy' attacked were the head lights. This should have been simple enough: First, buy a 12 volt light bulb and second, install said light bulb, right? --------- No wrong! The receptacle literally disintegrated when we looked at it. You could see that someone else had tried to rewire it a couple of times and the old wires and insulation were crumbling. Well, with two days before its supposed to be completed and on a weekend to boot, there was no way to order an original replacement part So I placed another Call to Kevin at NAPA in Kingston. "Are there any replacement bulbs and sockets in your store for any kind of light that will work with a whatchamacallit?" Kevin said, "We have some weird looking ones we ordered for a guy with an early BMW a couple of years ago and since we had to buy a case and he only needed 2 bulbs, we have some extra's here." .......... Two hours later, using a 1 3/4" hole saw, some really really small sheet metal screws and some soldering, WE HAD LIGHTS!

Last but not least, 'Murphy' put a crook in my neck while installing the Red Top optima battery down in the rumble seat compartment. All in all though we had a lot of fun working on and solving dilemmas on this project.