Quote Originally Posted by randyr View Post
Well, I hope you have a really long driveway or at least had the car pointed to the street! It would really suck to end up like Pat's friend with the '37!

As for the tranquil neighborhood, a little "wake-up call" once in a while is good for them!

As I recall, you said you're well-endowed at the ends of your legs and foot-space in a roadster is in short supply......have you considered hand controls??

I guess Mama's gonna have you out there scrubbing that rubber off the driveway, right?

Hope you figure out the "strange noises." Any clues where to look next?
The driveway is about 150 feet long - my home has a basement drive out 3rd garage stall, illegal by today's building codes, but I push the car outside, never starting it inside. I need to drive across my lawn, up a short grade. I just got onto the drive and shifted my butt end for a better seat position - aw sugar - my foot went between the brake and gas and off we went. Gotta admit - it WAS fun!! Those marks - a bucket of driveway sealer - but nahhhh, it's a 'mark' of never growing up

Strange noises - going to do one more preload check on the lifters and if there is no joy, will be doing a full engine tear down though will do a converter check per Jerry' suggestion tho I did a quick look over the winter. I was going to NSRA York, but would rather spend my time and $$ fixing the car plus the weather is forecast for rain, possibly clearing for the PM, but more rain on Sunday. Not a fun 350 mile ride