Since she ran fine, I registered the Z and drove it back and forth to work, as planned. I experienced no mechanical issues that kept it from being reliable transportation and began doing minor upgrades like replacing the battery and adding a relay to be less taxing on the starter motor.
At one point I replaced the tie rod ends and took it to a local Nissan dealer to have the wheels aligned. This was fairly entertaining as no one there could figure out what specs to go by and it started to draw a crowd after a while.
During the next few months I would do little jobs on the car like paint the steering wheel, change the front brakes and replace the intake / exhaust gasket and manifold with headers.
I cleaned up the car the best I could and just enjoyed driving my own Z.
It was kind of weird at first because people would regularly honk, wave and yell out their windows at me… in my 40+ year old rust bucket of a Z. It was a fun summer.
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