Drove her on the road for the first time in 2 years tonight!

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Drove her over to the Shell station for a fill up of tasty 90 octane ethanol free, then stayed long enough to wash down the truck using their wind shield washer fluid and sponges.

Because of my back/neck issues I couldn't do wrench turning, BUT, walked my wife through her first ever hands-on car repair work. This was the shake down trip/test run after today's efforts:

* gas tank/sending unit
* refurb oem filler neck and install lmc rubber filler and vent hoses
* rubber lines from sending unit to fuel lines
* rubber line from fuel line to fuel pump
* fuel pump
* carb base and air cleaner gaskets
* nos gm reman monojet carb (1982 rebuild)
* nos air cleaner assembly
* ignition coil
* ignition module
* vacuum modulator
* distributor cap
* distributor rotor
* spark plugs
* plug wires

Needs the vacuum lines freshened up, some other things... has a bad habit of dropping rpm to stall point if you let off the pedal entirely at a light or around a corner, but ran better than it has since the day we got it.