There are many hours of detailed nitpicking in here. I cleaned, dyed and painted as appropriate. Turns out the fix for the dull chrome bits is a razor knife which took some mental adjustment. Easy. Put a heater core in the thing, replaced all the vacuum control rubber lines and actuators, repaired/replaced all the duct work, insulated the firewall. Fixed broken sockets and bulbs, cigarette lighter, hopefully the odometer reset, power window switches. I want all the stuff in the dashboard and console to work including the heat/defrost. Hasn't since I bought it in Nov 2016. Holding my breath. Spent the day doing wiggle-wiggle-fiddle-fiddle and routing things, made a bracket to hold the giant radio. A little more time needed for all that and I should be able to reconnect the battery, do some testing and button it up. Want to fire that thing up already.
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