For a car that spent decades rotting away in damp soil and the occasional flood situation, the “LeManster” Pontiac that Junkyard Digs has been working on is coming together pretty decently. Fitted with big-cube Buick power, wearing a slight lift, it’s taking shape as a Gambler 500-style build. Don’t mind the license plate patch job, it’s not like this car is going to be coming back to perfect anytime soon. He has aspirations of driving this car on Power Tour and on a Gambler 500 run, which means that the car needs to be legal…which means that the headlights, taillights, turn signals, and the like need to work. Properly.

Given that the car was submerged at least once, probably several times, it’s safe to say that absolutely NOTHING electrically run on this car functions worth a damn. Switches? Dead. Regulators? Dead. The “correct” way to do things would be to gut the wiring and to pick up a kit that’s more-or-less plug-and-play, but a setup meant for the car is over $500 and one of those general-purpose kits that you customize at home is about $250. Kevin, however, has apparently been to the same school of Electrical Masochism that I’ve attended, and with a bunch of stuff bought at a general-purpose store and enough wiring to braid together into a noose once he understands how deep he is going to be, he’s going to re-wire the whole LeMans. From scratch.

And I’m the “Patron Saint of Automotive Lost Causes”…