Thanks for all your help with my last post... it seems that everyone thinks i need to hear this puppy run before any money is down. like i said, the solenoid is supposedly dead, so will it still start with the recoil starter? should anything else have to be tinkered with/tweeked? i'm heading back over today to get the year number and find out what sort of shifting it has... hopefully everything checks out! i dont know how else i could get something this cheap and have the chance of it running. my father and i are both mechanically inclined (his totally restored 1964 gto and my brother's 86 shaved, hot rodded gmc pickup speak for themselves)... anyways... thanks for the help!