Well, we made it back, dock­ing in Boston on Fri­day.  We had a won­der­ful trip, very nice weather and saw some great sights, even a lit­tle snow.  After a cou­ple days of clean­ing up the mess in the office and reduc­ing the pile of paper­work on my desk, we are ready to move for­ward.  A few more meet­ings with the accoun­tants and lawyers and we will have much more free time to devote to our favorite project.

We now have the seat belts installed, the trans­mis­sion painted and ready to install and today began to install the rear axle back in the car.  Hon­estly, it was not a very pro­duc­tive day, it began with a one hour search for the lower con­trol arms.  It seems that in the chaos prior to my leav­ing, I had taken them to NAPA to have the new bush­ings pressed in and some­how for­got to pick them up, while away two of my employee’s cleaned up the garage, doing me a favor, and now I had no clue where they were or where to look.  Luck­ily after an hour I took a shot with NAPA and was very relieved to find them there.  The two miss­ing bush­ings for the upper con­trol yoke arrived while I was gone and now I am wait­ing for those to be pressed in.

We man­aged to get the axle under the car, con­nected the lower con­trol arms and will fin­ish when the upper yoke is ready prob­a­bly tomor­row.  The hard work is done, once the yoke is here, we will install the new rear ball joint, com­press the springs and bolt it all down tight.  Weather here has not been great, but I hope to pick the motor up from the shop this week and we may get it back in the car this weekend.

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