Grit Your Teeth, Here Goes

It has begun.  The engine rebuild.

From this:
*And please note tolerant but bemused husband giving me the fish eye over worrying and hyperventilating about my car going in for major surgery...

To this:

The Grand Canyon:

But wait--why stop THERE?! What about inside the car as well?

The dash looks too intact, let's FIX THAT!

AAGGGHHHH!!!

Well...that doesn't look so ba--


Oh.

I guess a burned wire on the clock would tend to interfere with it keeping time.