This is where I found the car parked there in 1953. I drove it for 2 summers '87-8 until the cam went completely flat. Tore down the engine and most of the exhaust valves were gone also.

Starting on the fixing up, cause I am not really doing a restoration. I am just making it work again. 

Before above and after picture below. See the broken Speedo and if you look hard the trashed water temp.
The Speedo glass I reproduced myself. I scanned the old glass as it was all there, just broke.
Saved it to a .tiff file and did some touchup with Adobe Photo Shop, reversed the image then printed to a 
8 x 11 label sheet. Transferred on to the back of a new piece of glass, cut out the numbers and lines with a 
razor knife and sprayed with silver paint. If it is 103k miles, this car really doesn't show it, but hard to believe
that is is only 3898.

Reground cam and lifters, new exhaust valves, that is really all it needed. Rods and mains were within spec.

This car has both, electric hand and automatic clutch. I tested them 3.10.04 and seems to work fine.

I am the legal second owner of this car, this is the original title.

Progress ( more pictures )

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