Thanks guys for the replies.
Flynt, thanks for the feedback, I’ll be sure to check the cold start injector. On the fuel tank I’m going to need to do some research as it will probably need to be cleaned and I’m concerned about the plastic swirl pot. I’ve also heard that it is a one-off, one year only fuel tank. The big rubber overriders haven’t grown on me, not a fan, and one of them is cracked, so I may pull them and put them into storage and replace them with the earlier chrome deco pieces from 72. Not sure on this though as they are not correct for the year. We’ll see.
Dg567, the brown one is a ’78 SC, bone stock with 80k original miles. It’s an awesome canyon carver.
Jay993, it’s an interesting story, the original owner is a friend of mine and work took him to Hawaii. Originally the job was to be a one-year gig, so he put the car into storage without much thought or preparation for storage. 19 years later he’s still in Hawaii. Every year my wife and I vacation with him and his brother and every year I had been badgering him to sell me the car. He finally agreed to sell it. It’s funny, when we first started negotiating 9 months ago, we agreed on a price almost immediately, but it took him 9 months to part with the car, as I’m sure we can all understand.
Started giving it a once-over cleaning to get rid of all mouse evidence in preparation of the work.
