(1) I took a day off last month and drove about an hour and a half away to pick up this running driving '89 LX with a 4cyl and a 5-speed.

(2) First thing we did was give the interior a good cleanse, vacuuming, and shampooing to get the years of neglect out.

(3) We took the running, driving car and made it neither of those things.

(4) I found a cheap questionable engine for our cheap questionable car. A friend of mine knew a guy that knew a guy that had a running 302/C4 combo from a '70s F-series that had allegedly been rebuilt at some point for $200. I bought it, tore it down, it looked okay. So we threw a new timing set, timing cover, water pump, oil pump, pickup, pan, all new gaskets, factory headers, and a Marketplace Edelbrock intake on it.

I later ran all the casting #'s and found out this engine is kind of a Frankensteined motor. It was actually out of an '86 T-bird, and has late '70s 351 heads on it. All low performance parts, but that's fine. The 4cyl T-5 can't handle a ton of power anyway.

(5) The car as it sits now, awaiting an engine.