turned the trick.

Stopped by the garage this morning to let the guys do it...last night attempted operation in dark, inch-an-hour rain, with cold-numbed fingers.

Reminded me of one night we decided to get a friend's Packard that hadn't been started in 12 years under power...11PM, about a block into the circular drive through his development the beast died...and then it began to snow...

Whenever I go to visit an "old car friend" now, I put two or three loaded "Marlin Perkins Model" tranquilizer guns in my trunk...when the urge to rebuild an engine in the middle of the night comes on, we all let each other have a dart of 500mg subcutaneous thorazine administered by dart...by the time we wake up, the urge to resurrect someone's old steel has generally faded.