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Good advice. When I bought my '47 it had been stored inside but had driven less that 100 miles a year for the previous 50 years and smoked oil and with so much blowby and lifter noise that I thought I would have to rebuild the engine. I was embarrassed to drive it. An old mechanic told me to just drive it for 500 miles and see what would happen. After a few highway runs the engine ran very well now with very little blowby or oil burning and the lifters noise all but disappeared.Drive it a while and see what happens; you might be pleasantly surprised.