Bud,
Is it just you and Nancy heading from Amarillo?
Today, I picked up Gail from the shop. Tomorrow, I'll install her bumper, air dam, and the grills / parking / side lights.
Monday (hopefully), I'll take her back to the shop at noon for her pin-stripes. She won't spend the night in the shop.
Tuesday, maybe I'll change her oil while waiting for the tranny.
Hopefully Wednesday, I'll receive her new Reptoid 200-4r from PATC (I'll tell you the story on what happened on my original plans to build her new tranny myself at CruiseFest or on the way there
). I'll start removing her factory-matching tranny perhaps that night. Her 350C was rebuilt a few years ago, and runs very strong, but 14 miles per gallon has kept me shy from cruising her on a whim to California or other destinations. So I hope to put some miles on her again and drive her with a 20 mile per gallon rate or better.
Thursday, working still on her tranny swap. By the way L81'ers, the Bowtie Transmissions cross member includes the parking brake cable pulley bracket. It is already in my garage. I put a Bowtie one as well in the Acadian when I swapped his Power Glide with a 200-4r.
Friday, I am taking as vacation, and I'll keep plugging away on her tranny swap.
Which means that it looks like I won't be meeting you guys on that run Memorial Day Weekend. I would love to go, but with a major inspection on the first week of June, I am afraid that I'll run-out-of-time, and have Gail not ready for the Cruise Fest. So, this way I make sure that she's ready for Cruise Fest VI.
Some time in the weekend, I'll install the 200-4r conversion shifter kit to accommodate the extra highway gear at the console.
My goal is to have her ready, so if you have no caravaner's leaving with you, I am willing to show-up to Amarillo on Tuesday and hit the road with you guys on Wednesday, June 9. :Twist
What do you think?
GerryLP:cool
p.s. The reason why the tranny swap is taking so long in the itinerary is that I am working full days while these days before Cruise Fest click by...