Another Slant back from the dead

It's alive! This is my '65 Valiant 2 door I bought on CL in S. California. 225/904 combo. The engine had been sitting since around 2006. Parked after it "stopped working" according to the previous owner. A complete mystery and a big gamble when I bought it...but I had faith in the little 6 that could.

I followed a lot of advise on this forum and have lots of thanks to go around for all of the valuable posts and past experiences from other posters that helped me resuscitate the slant. Essentially I covered all of the basics; oil change, plugs, checked cap & wires which seemed pretty clean, did a once over on valve lash and eventually ended up changing the timing chain. It didn't seem too sloppy to me but once I had the new chain on there the slant started right up. I made sure I could rotate the engine by hand and then bumped it over a few times at the starter just to ensure it was not frozen before adding fuel and spark.

I've since installed a new gas tank, just finished running all new steel brake lines, dual reservoir master cylinder and have all of the parts to eventually do the Scarebird disk brake conversion on the front.

The engine seemed pretty clean and I'm guessing it has been rebuilt at some point in it's life. Long term plan is to swap in a small block but I must say I've really enjoyed working on the slant and can really appreciate the extra available real estate inside the engine compartment.