Of the slow progress on this car:
Engine has been finished for a while, just sitting on a cart until the various transaxle/suspension/miscellaneous stuff is done:
Can't remember if I posted this before but the torsion tube that holds the rear T-bars had some surface rust in it that was serious enough to require attention before putting it all back together. This is not the kind of thing that you can just "get to later", it would involve some pretty extensive disassembly of the rear suspension. Not to mention trusting someone else to properly prep it and seal it. It took me a while, (and several scrapped ideas), to decide on the correct course of action. The inside of the tube is dark and fairly inaccessible + filthy with old grease and dirt. The rust was not nearly fatal but needed to be stopped NOW, IMO, since the T-bars only come out once every 48 years for all I know.
The car in general is extremely dry, a rare find in (mostly) original condition. This is a *before* shot of the torsion tube:
