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Howdy all -

Sunday the car carrier showed up with a nearly new midstates to sit in my garage. It's from my dad's estate and I'm helping the family out by taking care of it. (Although given the squealing noises from my wife when it showed up in the driveway, I think I may just be able to keep it for myself...)

The car has kind of a sad story. My dad had been building it for a few years when he found out he was terminal with cancer. He had it finished off at a professional shop and only managed to get a few hundred miles on it before he passed. Given it was his life's love, I'm kind of hesitant to sell it. It would feel a bit weird having someone else driving it. But then again, I need some help on the car before I can really make that call.

There are a few things I'm needing some help on:

I need the name of a good shop you'd trust a kit car with in the Phoenix area, preferable the west metro that's good at electrical work. The car has some sort of electrical problem that is causing the battery to discharge. (Sat in storage for 3 weeks just fine up in MN, started right up when it was loaded on the carrier. Started up fine to drive off the carrier. Started just fine in my driveway. Battery was dead as a doornail after driving 5 blocks and stopping for a malt with my wife.) I'm going to get the alternator checked out this week, but I'm not confident that's the problem.

The car has an automatic. And it has what I think are two swtiches that control the overdrive on the dash with a yellow light. Flipping the switches does change the transmission, but for the life of me, I can't really figure out what it's doing. Anyone have any insight?

Any gatherings coming up where a new guy could swing buy and ask a lot of dumb questions with only getting laughed at a little?

Thanks gents,

Pete