Cary was busy

Harvested the rear sway bar off of my 73 but now I need to track down the bolt for the suspension on the trailing arm that has the cup for the drop link before I can add the sway bar

Matt,

Looks great . in another thread folks are looking to get rear shocks just like yours. Where did you source them?

Eric at PMB Performance

Need to get the gas tank cleaned up next. The outside was painted and I thought it was treated. Looking inside, I think it needs a little more love.

Put some apple cider vinegar and ball bearings in the tank for the night. Worked it around inside pretty good to get every angle.

Sealed up so I could work the ball bearings and vinegar all around

Had to get a few photos of some of our new parts.

With the suspension in we could tighten the spring up front

Starting to look like a car again.

Installed new stainless steel lines in the tunnel

So far I've only been able to get one through the grommet. I'll continue trying tomorrow

Need to figure out which Tabs are used for holding the lines and place in the tunnel.

Got the new pedal cluster in that Bruce Stone restored for me and added a plate for hand throttle since I'll be using carbs.

Everything but the wiring harness and carpet is now in the rrar trunk

Replaced the grounding strap for the transmission.

Added new engine Bay liner with water proofing.

New Dash face metal and vinyl ready to install tomorrow.

Got the headlight surrounds all cleaned up. Love the look of the white on there with the red.

Awesomeness!
Every time I see these restorations I get a little overwhelmed thinking about all the work ahead of me.

But as I follow along with your build, I can see that chipping away at it will get it done.
(though it's a bit unfair that you get Super In-Law help! Does he make house calls? )

Thanks for the entertainment and encouragement to soldier on!

Can't wait for the post when you fire it up and do the first drive. Soon?

Looks like you were busy after we left ................

Ditto. Your work is inspiring while also making me want to myself a little over the amount of work ahead. Keep the posts coming!

Looks like those are now nla.. Asked Eric today.

Thank you sir. Your project is very inspiring. I have not done much in the fabricating side on this build but I will do an outlaw next.

Super in law is awesome! Very inspiring to work with him.

Hopefully the engine will be done next week.

Got more done last night than tonight. Decided to take the entire tail end of the one of the wiring harnesses that I picked up and use it to replace the damaged section on my old one.

Don't worry about the end and just enjoy the journey. I am loving just working on each detail and really learning the car and our parts.

I bought them from him right after I bought the car thinking that I was just going to freshen it up and drive it. We will start to carry things like listen to Future once we get our website done. In the meantime we'll keep making more parts for you.

Continued getting the dash ready today. Put the new vinyl on the glove box door.

Wrapped the vinyl around the base of the door like the Factory did and clamped it to let it set up for the night

Cleaned up the heater control lever and got it put back together I'm ready to go in

Hope to get the hand throttle, heater control, linkage and wiring harness into the tunnel tomorrow.

Got the vent hose and the hose from the passenger side long to the mixing box installed. Had to get the mixing boxes and the interior vents screwed back in after painting the interior.

On the drivers side I mocked up and alternative hose that we sell too, to try and figure out what one I like better. What do you think?

Got the wiring harness finished today

Got the harness fished in to the front trunk (again)

Got the hand throttle figured out and will be completing the installation tomorrow.

Got the shifter out of the 73 to go with the hand throttle and the restored sideshift linkage that I got from Bruce stone.

Aside from presenting an epic rebuild, I compliment you for the excellent photography that has brought this work up close and well documented. As a retired photographer, I'm curious about the camera equipment used to make these images? You were often working in some very confined spaces!

I ike the Aeroduct. It's a better product but it isn't original in appearance like the first.

Thank you
Believe it or not, these are just on my phone. Although I did bring some lighting in because it was hard to see some of the stuff and I'm trying to take pictures of our parts and installation information to eventually make it on our website (914Rubber.con)

They are both nice, but I will be going with the Areoduct hose after I get the wiring harness back in.

Another long day today. We (Cary) got the the fuel pump inspection door cut out and got the panel blasted, polished and painted. I ran the wires the the harness already so now I just need to work in the ground back to the main grounding post buy the fuse box.

Super-in-law was busy cutting up another car, but posed for a photo. I told him we needed one for a t-shirt that we can put him in a cape. "Super-in-law... Jack of all trades"

He is my hero

This is the rebuilt steering rack that I neglected to get a picture of earlier

Got the new LED lights in and took plenty of pictures for installation instructions.

Got the Dremel tool with the wand out and clean the paint off of all of the ground Post terminals

Got the wires in to new boots for one side. What a pain in the assembly! I now understand why we started making pre-wired boots. Way easier to cut out the old dad wires and Boots and just add fresh new ones.. but after working so hard to preserve this harness I'll probably do it the hard way on the other side too.

Cary got these on today too

Got all the turn signals wired and installed with new boots and seals