[Pinballer]

Thank you all, gentlemen, I feel like I'm *almost* a part of the S/SS club now that I have a running car. Much refinement will have to happen though, and I didn't waste much time---an order went into Jegs last night for some more parts!
I will admit to a couple of things: Yes, I did get a great wave of satisfaction when I started it up and gingerly drove the car out onto the open road to check out the running gear, knowing that even though it has been a lot of hard sweaty work for almost a solid year essentially making three cars into one, it was going to be worth it to me whether this race car ever bombs the index or not. And I will also admit that my wife asked me what the big ****-eating grin on my face was all about when I got back into the house after the maiden voyage.

Bringing things back from the dead seems to be the nature of my whole life. Clear back in '73 when I was 17 years old and in my senior year of high school I started reviving a thoroughly vandalized '67 Corvette convertible I had bought for $800 with my burger flipping money, then later on I got into all sorts of other muscle cars that were usually down and out, then pinballs, and at times various other assorted "treasures" that other people had long given up on. Even our house qualifies for that terminology, it was a mess when we bought it.
And I'm not so naive that I don't realize that a ton more work is on the horizon for this AMX to make it any good. In fact, the vast majority and most costly of the work will begin right now.