83 Lincoln Continental

[Adam]

I put the gas tank back in last night. When I did I realized I should have also gotten a new rubber seal that goes around this vent that attaches to the top of the tank (the old one is cracked and hard), but for now I just want to see if I can get this car to run and don't want to wait another week for another part to arrive by mail. I just ordered a new seal this morning, and I'll replace it later.

I also couldn't stuff the filler tube in while holding up the gas tank at the same time. Now I can't get it up high enough to line it up with the hole in the tank with the tank already installed, but it looks like I can remove the piece the filler tube slides through that attaches to the rear fender, if I access it through the trunk. Then I can remove the tube entirely, so I can lined it up correctly and push it in with the tank already installed.

For now I have to use a piece of wood to hold the trunk lid up. Those hydraulic lifts that hold up the trunk lid aren't working anymore. But I also ordered those this morning.

When I first bought this car, I just thought it would be an interesting driver that I sold after a few years. But after I keep having to put so much work into it, I figure I'll either sell it sooner because I get fed up with stuff breaking, or I'll fix it all and want to keep it because I finally get everything to work.

I haven't worked on cars much in the past 10-20 years, but I used to work on cars all the time back in the 90s and early 00's - but back then all my cars were from the 1960s or 70s. When I looked for a car from that era last year, I discovered that now they're all either super-expensive, super-broken, or both, so I went for 80's cars (and now I have 2 of them: the 83 Lincoln and 84 Firebird). I like cars from the 80s, but I still have a lot to learn about them. But that said, eventually, I'd still like to pick up something from the super-broken category and restore it - I've always wanted a finned GM car from 1959-60.