Home Again

Last night we finally got the JZA70 out of storage and up to it's winter home where I'll be working on it. It went incredibly smoothly and way easier than moving it before, surprisingly. I was originally planning to somehow reverse it onto the flatbed so that I could drive it forward into the garage, but I wasn't able to get a hold of the guy I used last time with the smooth backed flatbed, so I decided to just go forward on a regular flatbed and figure it out when we got there. Luckily, when the tow truck showed it up turned out to have a smooth back anyway, and it had a somewhat bendable end on it which was much better than the previous flatbed.
So we loaded it up, and left the car pretty far back on the flatbed (shown in the picture below, you can also see the connection where the bendable part is) so that it wouldn't have to roll as far coming down. Somehow my passenger side window has stopped working, which is something I dealt with with my previous Supra, but it isn't a huge deal since the car is inside anyway. We did get a little bit of rain on the way up, but because of those window visors the car has, nothing really went in the window.

Getting it off the flatbed was pretty easy. We used the same way as before of getting the rear wheels off then driving the truck out from under the car. We didn't end up using the dollies this time (mostly because I've managed to bend them up pretty badly), the car just rolled down with the wheel sideways and rubbed against the inside of the fender. Normally I wouldn't let it do that, but it only had about 3 feet to go so it wasn't a huge problem. The front lip took a bit of a beating coming down the bed, but the whole bumper could use some work, so what's a bit of paint on the front bumper?

After getting it off the flatbed, I got to drive it into the garage where I'm keeping it, which was nice to actually get to drive my car a bit. I moved it a few feet forward the last time I used a flatbed, but this time I actually got to drive it a little bit farther, which was kind of cool. I can't wait to have everything working and actually have the option of going backwards too! As for now though, it's just sitting in a garage as I wait for more parts. I managed to find an entire rear end from a friend of mine at Pur Auto, so I'm going to be swapping that over instead of just the subframe, so I'm waiting to pick that up next week, and then all I need is the Ronnie K subframe bushing kit and I'll be good to go for that. Tomorrow I hope to get the bumper and fender off to make it easier for when I get the DM intercooler kit, and to get started on removing the rear end.
Here's two pictures of it sitting in it's new home, along with a fake palm tree to make it and myself feel warm when I'm up there working on it!