Well, I’m getting close to finishing the assembly on the 66 Fairlane I’ve been working on for the last couple of months.

It’s been one of those jobs from where everything seems to fight. Fitment issues, improper pervious repairs, a rebuilt engine that had a rear main leak (love pulling those Ford pans in car), and rebuilt transmission with the shift and kickdown levers installed upside down (yeah you have to pull the pan and valve body to change them). Then there was the driver’s side header that had to modified to clear the PS and on and on.

Anyway I did the first short road test Friday (to the gas station) it turned out to be real short because of bad rear axel bearings. LOL.

The longer road test yesterday proved interesting. The car would start out in second gear (C4 transmission). That one fortunately turned out to be anti-climatic. 1966 was the last year for the Dual-Range (Green Dot) transmissions. .....it just took me a minute to remember that. Put it in Drive 2 and it worked just like it should.

It will make a nice little car now that hopefully all the little problems have been solved.

With any luck it should be gone this week or next and I can get back on the 37 Dodge.






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