He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.

I think it's fairly easy to figure out the 'mistake' part.

Now, on to the discoveries:

The car has the original transmission and solid axle boots-meaning that it just may be a low mileage car that was treated like shit and/or driven by someone who had no business behind the wheel of a car.  I took a closer look around the engine/trans and everything is pretty clean.  The heater pipes (between the heater box and the car's bulkhead) are wrapped in tape because they weren't lined up right when the engine was put in the car, so they didn't work correctly.  Tape seems to be a universal fix, right?

Curiosity got the best of me tonight, so I went out and removed the front turn indicators, and because the original fenders were squashed at some point and replaced with 'non side marker' fenders (which were subsequently squashed as well), the front housings were replaced with American dual contact housings.  After I wiped them down with metal polish, I realized that they were not pitted and the interior of the housings is in damn near perfect condition.

The rear housings are also in nice condition.  5 of the 6 little rubber wiring wedge covers look like they're brand new.  The 6th piece was melted a bit but was still flexible (it's just ugly).  I didn't spend much time cleaning them up and they still look pretty good.

The rear reflector housings appear to be in pretty good shape and the reflectors are in nice condition.

It was a nice surprise.

I also pulled the glove box and in spite of someone replacing the securing strap incorrectly, it's one of the nicer stock units I've seen.

I hosed several of the bolts down with penetrating oil and called it a night.

Background Tune: "Enjoy the Unknown" by And One  (it's on heavy rotation as my theme for this project)