Dad still says it "wants to run". It's not a lost cause. He's still trying. The latest thing he discovered that's wrong with it..... the timing was exactly backwards. I know that it must have been like that when I bought it, more than two years and 40,000 miles ago. Dad got that all fixed... and now he really thinks it will go any time now.
I am still holding onto hope that I will have something to drive sometime near my upcoming birthday....