Home at last.  SRL311-11987 undergoes a more thorough inspection after arriving at it's new garage.  The car rode a flatbed back to my house as it wouldn't run at the time.  I recall being worried about getting the car down our very steep driveway as it had no brakes either.  Thankfully the parking brake had enough left to keep the car from careening through to the back of the garage.  As you can see, $675 buys a whole lot o' Roadster!

The only manual I had at the time was the Chilton manual covering all the 60's Datsun's.  Not much to go by.

After 9 months of tinkering and learning what makes cars go, the Roadster would actually go under it's own power.  I finished all of the work I needed to do a week or so before my cousin's wedding.  I flew to NJ for the wedding.  A week later my father drove the Roadster from Birmingham to meet me.  You make the call on whether my father is brave, stupid, or very trusting of his son's mechanical abilities.  From there we drove it together all through upstate NY looking at colleges (I wound up choosing St. Lawrence in Canton NY) and then back to Alabama.  Prior to that drive, the longest the car had gone was a 24 mile "highway test".  Nearly 2000 miles for a maiden voyage and not a single problem!  I guess Dad is trusting.

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