Oh yeah- it drives.

I pulled out on the street and headed for a gas station.
Since there hasn't been a full tank of gas ran through, and I'm not sure of the fuel guage yet, I filled to the screen in the fuel neck.
Pulled out on the interstate- @ '50' mph shes got a lot of gear whine, but is tracking true and can
do '55'.  Newer cars aren't passing as fast as I thought they would.  The odometer is relatively close to the mileage markers so its only a couple miles off... or so I thought.
It seems '50' is actually '60' and I was probably up to 65 w/o an overdrive for a short while.
The speedo seems to get more off the faster it goes.
A couple of slowpokes in the slow lane (if there is such a thing in TX) got passed by a 37 y/o vehicle even!  About 40ish miles later I pulled into a gas station and filled the tank back to the screen. 
It got 13.7 mpg with a big azz rochester on it in a square box doing '60'!!
Typical leaks - I call it 'marking its spot' - after parking.  For all the rattles and gear whine though it made it without incident.
Life is good.