IT'S FINALLY FIXED!!
After a long emotional drama of having it held hostage for a better part of a year, the surrendering it to a friend, who gave it to another friend to fix it... it's such a long story. But it's home! It works! We can drive it?
Well, not quite. We registered it for a year in March of 2008 which means... yup, it expired in March 2009. So, it runs, but we can't drive it on the road. *Sigh*.
It's always something. But take heart! For we shall have it registered and on the road within a couple weeks! PLUS! We can teach the teens to drive the stupid thing right from the start, so they can learn how to work a clutch AS THEY SHOULD!
