I took this photo shortly after moving into my last house in Santa Clarita about 6 years ago. It was my first 2-car garage and I was quick to fill it with projects.

Aside from a few moving boxes and furniture that hadn't been moved inside, you can clearly see the Caddy 500 I had originally planned on installing into my flattie sitting on the engine stand.

You can also see the Currie 9-inch housing and a few boxes of parts before I assembled it. For some strange reason I wanted to put it together myself rather than have Currie build it for me. I can't remember why.

On the cardboard sits the SM420 I found sitting next to an early '60s GMC pickup with a 305 V-6. I put it in the flattie with no rebuild. It's still working perfectly. Also in that area are the junked Spicer 18 and the Dana 20 T-cases that Cappa and I put together to make one h.d. Spicer 18.

The tranny on the floor in front of the engine stand is the NP435 out of my '85 Ramcharger. it's still the single greatest tranny I've ever owned. The Dodge was sitting in front of the garage while I put in a new clutch and flywheel. The original lasted over 200K miles.

Then you see the Ramcharger's Chevy NP205 T-case that I converted to full 32-spline input and output shafts throughout. The Klune is pulled apart because it was an early prototype with a 2-piece main shaft. I grenaded the shaft in Moab during a climb, but it was still driveable. Luckily the unit was in 1:1 and not shifted into 2.72:1 Low when the shaft went boom or it would've been a long, slow ride back to California. I rebuilt the Klune with the company's more modern input shaft and it never gave me any more problems.