Kerry's 330 GT Restoration
My wife and I parted company with her keeping the '84 Volvo and me getting the '67 Ferrari and '72 240Z. At this point, my daughters were 6 and 10 years old. Of course, the Z only has 2 seats, but the Ferrari was a 2+2. And the rear seats could actually hold a 6 year old. So it became the daily driver on weekends when I had the kids.
Later on I got a Datsun 310 beater that had enough seats for everybody and the Ferrari was left in the garage.
Then we (my fiancé and I) purchased a new house. The day we decided to move the Ferrari, the starter brushes decided that they were no longer going to cooperate and turn the motor. Luckily the new house was only 4 blocks down the street, so we decided to push it there. There's a little rise in the road that's hardly noticeable when you walk, but pushing a 3400 pound car makes it quite noticeable. We did manage get it into the new garage where it sat for 2 years.
I finally pulled the exhaust header so I could remove the starter. A stop at the auto electric shop yielded new brushes and the starter then worked. However after putting everything back together, the car would start and idle, but not rev up. I had drained the old gas and slopped a gallon of fresh gas in. I figured that the old gas had varnished, thus clogging the fuel filters.
Fast forward a couple of years. Armed with new filters, I drained the now old gas again, replaced the filters, cleaned the gas tank screen and slopped in another gallon or so of new gas. The car showed the same symptoms, so I concluded that the main jets had clogged and the carburetors needed rebuilding. Three carb kits were purchased to set on the shelf for another 6 years.