OK, I am awake again.
More on the Metro.
Doax came over yesterday. He and I played with the electric motorcycle and did a few other things.
Then we went over to where the seller of the car was. There was NO STRAIGHT route to get there! Howerer Doax (Tim) drove and pulse-and-glided the whole way there.
It looks like the good news is that the trouble with this car may NOT be the transmission. Rather, it appears to have NO clutch!
With the clutch pedal smashed to the floor the only way to shift it into any gear was with the engine off. We then had the seller short a bad fuse under the hood the to allow the starter to work.
The starter just starts pulling the car forward as soon as I cranked it! After a couple of feet of that, the engine caught, and I was moving under power in first gear with my head out the window to see around the hood, making non-stopping left-hand turns around the block.
The car actually ran really well, other than not being able to shift into or out of gear!!!!
When looking under the hood, pressing the clutch does move the clutch cable and lever it is attached to.
I was really hoping to be able to grind through gears and drive this beasie home. Unless my house was only a mile away, with no stops, that wasn't likely to happen.
Yesterday, when we got back, Tim welded a hitch receiver onto the back of my pickup truck.
I am planning on renting one of those two-wheel-lift-the-front-wheels-of-the-car-you're-towing-off-the-ground trailers, and dragging the Metro home that way.
(Oh No! My wife said she LIKES the pink pinstriping!!! It may have to stay!!!!
This may end up being her car, so I wanted something with an airbag. But that means she will want something cute and adorable!!!!)