Engine replacement & tranny rebuild

I can see the light at the end of the tunnel (and this time, it's not a rust hole).

Pretty much all I need to do now is hook up the wires to the alternator & battery, install the starter, carb, distributer (after priming the oil pump), and replace & hook up a couple more wires (original ones are really brittle & scary). Then I should be ready to fire it up.

I've also swapped hoods because New Sadie's hood has a bunch of bondo & who knows what else chipping off of the top and is in pretty bad shape overall. Old Sadie's hood just needs a tiny bit of work on the outside (I rattle canned it several months ago so it pretty much matches - not great, but it'll do until I can get the whole car painted) and there's a little rust along the front edge on the underside. So the plan is to cut out the rust on the underside, cut a patch from the underside of New Sadie's hood, and weld it in. That will probably be my next small project after I get her running. And once I get that taken care of, I'm going to remove the hood latch and go with some hood pins because I've had the hood try to fly open a few times while going down the highway so I trust the pins a lot more than I trust the latch.

And can't remember if I've mentioned this yet or not, but for the tranny, I've decided to eventually pull out Old Sadie's tranny and rebuild it. The rebuild kit is only around $70, I'll learn a lot by doing it myself, and by doing Old Sadie's tranny rather than New Sadie's, I won't have to pull the car off the road for as long.

-Chelle