It never ceases. I fix one thing, like my headlights, and something else goes wrong. Like say for instance, the drivetrain.

I was driving along today, when I noticed the car was revving a lot higher than normal for the slow speed I was going along at. The speed limit around here is 15 mph, so we are talking like it felt about 3000-3500 rpms to be going 10-15 mph. It also was feeling a little like it was "lurching" forward every few seconds, kind of like a rocking feeling, like it was accelerating very slightly, or if it had square wheels. Since I'm only 3 blocks from home and the curb all the way there is Fire Lane Red, I decide to just ease it on home. About 50 feet from my right hand turn, I eased on the brakes to slow to about 5 mph when I felt something shift (maybe...) subtly and heard a rythmic scraping from under the car. It sounded a lot like the brake shoes dragging on the drum, but it wasn't continuous. Just after I made the turn the sound stopped and I figured to stop pushing my luck and pulled over and put the transmission in neutral. I might have been mistaken, but neutral felt a lot like "park". Maybe it was just some really flat ground. But considering the red curb and the 300 yards left to drive, I figured it couldn't do much more harm than it had already and I drove it back and parked it where it is going to be staying for the forseable future.

The Bird is a '69 coupe with a '73 455 and a TH400 behind it. I was told there was a high stall converter (think around 3000), but I have no way of knowing.

Anyone have any idea on could have gotten jarred or snapped or spun or torqued or dropped or evaporated? I'm not sure if it was the rear end, tranny, driveshaft, something with the engine, or my imagination.

I still love it. Like a child really.