Resurrecting the Rambler

[Pinballer]

Yeah, the faster cars are a lot more exciting to watch and I know I love a four foot wheelie that carries out past the 60 ft clocks, but the expense of running and maintaining those is simply beyond my means. Parts countermen don't usually race big block supercars. I'll start out in T where I can live with it and parlay my big winnings into an O car some day. (you can laugh here)

Spending the waning days of my vacation doing some wiring on the car after outrunning the floods all over the southern part of the country early in the week. I guess we don't use our credit card often enough back home either, the company shut it off mid-vacation for suspected fraud. Makes it more exciting that way...

Yesterday's fascinating chores on the car included finishing up the headlight re-do so they wouldn't be shining up in the stands or at the tower. The old plastic headlight adjusters and a couple of springs too had long given up and broken apart, so that's all good now. Lights shine forward. The neutral safety switch wiring got ran where it needed to, and I tidied up some other loose ends hanging around in the engine compartment like tying the shifter cable back out of the way of the exhaust. Installed a couple relays in the engine bay for later usage of things like the electric water pump and possible radiator cooling fans too. Who knows what else will be needed out there, but electrically it's ready for them.
Took the dash mostly apart for about the third time to get some little things as far as wiring relocated on it for a rocker switch panel and fed the new wires around, plus scoped out where the future gauge pack installation will go. The tried and true antique Sun 2 5/8 chrome 3-gauge cluster out of the old Rambler race car gets moved into the new one now. I always loved the look of those, so it's a little of the old in the new again. I'm getting REAL familiar with how the dash goes together in this car, I think I can identify every danged wire under there by it's color now. The schematic is tossed aside, who needs it?
Also, kept stripping off the GT trim pieces and fender lip chrome for the install of the fender flares. Once those pieces came off, I'm super glad there was no hidden rust under them--this car is about a miracle considering it's life of sitting outside forever-- but it makes it look terribly "plain" now. I know it will change drastically when the AMX decals and the flares get on there and they get painted body color (they really look hideous with the baby blue flares and orange pinstriping held up against the red body, kinda looks like a circus wagon!), but I did do the car some justice in making it look "racier" with my latest effort.