Saab 99 yard ornament

Only temporarily, Tina, I promise. This is the motor and automatic transmission that came out of the gray 1978 Saab 99GLE, parked in the side yard until I can figure out where to put it and how to get it there. Nevin and I, along with a couple of strong teenagers to whom I paid $5 apiece, muscled it off the trailer and onto my children's old wagon last Friday, then I pulled it around onto the grass by the patio and covered it with a sheet of 6 mil poly, tied down with clothesline and weighted with old wheels from a 900. Instant junkyard! But it's a good, working vintage powerplant waiting for a new set of wheels to drive, and I couldn't just throw it away. Besides, it made a really challenging subject for this morning's wake up sketch.

7B Caran d'Ache graphite with a smattering of watercolor pencil, 8 1/4 x 11 9/16

detail of the engine; note the air conditioning compresser bracket, and the Hemmings sticker on the wagon in the full view.