I *almost* made it out there...and was extremely frustrated to be so close, but in the end missing it because of lack of parts access. The car had been in the shop a few months now, and they located the problem Friday, late morning - the injectors were the main cause of my months of frustration and the fact that I wasn't getting the car over 2000rpm even though it was idling nicely, not hunting, etc. Not sure if anyone else was following the thread of my past drivability issues, but they did everything under the sun to the fuel injection system. Looked into the cold start regulator, swapped fuel pump/fuel distributors/ECU (temporarily), used a separate gas tank and pickup and gas itself, checked valve clearances and cam timing, replace faulty warm up regulator and remove intake to replace the non functioning thermal time switch, replace the o2 sensor, not to mention looked at the injectors, out of the car, long ago..but a different tech looked at it and a couple hours later - surprise: under pressure, the injectors were dribbling, even though the pattern was supposedly good when they were checked back in May. Anyhow, I'll be ready for the next Dream Cruise...and hopefully will be cruising Woodward tonight, practicing for next year (at about 10 times the dream cruise speed... :) Should have much better performance since every thing on the car has been checked out, and the reduced weight of the money in my wallet should help the car get up to speed that much faster... (the sad fact of auto repair going this much overboard) Pete