Here's a couple more small items that have been done. The clutch cable snapped right in front of my house last week, (talk about luck- it gave no warning of failure and just broke while I was parallel parking). It's not too bad of a job w/ jack stands and proper tools but it would be no fun in the middle of the desert or on the interstate somewhere w/o a spare cable. "While I was in there", (famous Pelican last words),
I cleaned-up and lubed all of the linkage and adjusted the throttle cable. (It had a ton of slop). I also got the hand throttle working again, it is for warming-up the car since it does not have conventional chokes.
Here is a shot of the pedal assembly, the "bracket-looking thing" w/ the spring on it is the business end of the hand throttle. It also works great as a cruise control on the open road:
I've also been gradually trying to fix the bent sheet metal on the bottom of the car. The jack spurs are squished on their bottoms beyond repair, (although the jack point inserts still work fine), I've had good luck with the seams and I'm going to very carefully try to tap back the dented floor boards from inside. Here is a before and after shot of seam damage on bottom near rear swing arm, vice grips and patience works wonders:
