It runs. Runs well, in fact. The Taurus is completely reassembled and has been taken on a couple of shakedown errand trips. By the grace of God, all the mechanical bits are holding themselves together and rotating in their proper orbits. Not that there aren’t a couple of kinks to work out… the starter is being finicky and the speedometer doesn’t work. But ice-cold AC, good power, smooth sailing… :o) Thank you Lord. I’ll have everything worked out by the time school starts again. When that time arrives, come and get it, Elyse :o)<\/p>\n
I even polished the rims and wiped all the grease off the fenders. Dang that’s a purty car :o) Paperweight to car for around $500 and a lot (read: LOT) of elbow grease. Anyway. I’ll stop gushing. I was just very encouraged by that event today.<\/p>\n
In other news, I might move to Idaho in six months. Terry suggested that I could very well get a job working for Idaho Air Group, the non-profit Christian organization designing the Packer, the new type of aircraft I’m designing the passenger seats<\/a> for. It’d be a temporary job, to be sure, since the first flight of the new plane is scheduled for next fall and I’d only be doing drafting and computer modeling. But it’s an idea…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It runs. Runs well, in fact. The Taurus is completely reassembled and has been taken on a couple of shakedown errand trips. By the grace of God, all the mechanical bits are holding themselves together and rotating in their proper orbits. Not that there aren’t a couple of kinks to work out… the starter is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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