Half excellent and half disaster. It was a 1966 Dodge Dart that I had just got as my first car... in 1996. It needed a lot of work, and being a high school kid with no money that meant doing the work myself for the most part. So my first project was to rebuild its carburetor and give it a tune up.

The carburetor rebuild turned out pretty well. It came out about as well as a decent professional rebuild and a lot better than those junky rebuilt carburetors you can buy in parts stores (not too sure how many guys can relate to that here).

The tune up was the disaster half. I didn't tighten down one of the electrical connections in the distributor and it just plain died on me. Got it home with some help from my dad, found the problem - then made the mistake of dropping a screw into the distributor. Broke the distributor gear when I cranked it over so the timing became kind of random. Ever see a 12" jet of flame spew out your newly rebuilt carburetor?

I still have that car.