The temperature here got warm enough for me to dare start my 78 Newport and to have a hope of starting the 76 NYB. The Newport took off no problem but the NYB, having summer oil, wasn't as forgiving. Neither of my big cars have block heaters, being from the west coast. I had to start the Newport to get the NYB out of the driveway, plus I needed the Newport for a power plant as the NYB has a poor battery. The NYB took some cranking (and a healthy boost from the Newport) to get it to fire. It ran a few minutes and flooded itself out and died. I let it sit a few minutes while I cleared the foot of snow off it and then tried again. After cranking a while it fired again. It runs nice after it warms up but that warm-up is pretty painful in that car.

The NYB is now in the garage and the long repair project will soon begin. I will start with the high labour, low cost items first, then move onto the more expensive items like vinyl top and paint.

I am hoping to be driving it some time this summer. That will all depend on the finances, which are VERY tight right now.