What a beautiful restore. Those were honest vehicles.
Thank you for the kind words. Mechanically it is fairly good shape. The adventure will begin when it comes paint and body time.
Right now the big mechanical things (such as they are) include new and matching tires, exhaust and muffler (just a foot long pipe off the manifold), a slight miss (probably valves #1 gave me a weird reading the first time I compression tested but didn’t do it again), minor electrical, and there is still some slight softness in the brakes.
The master cylinder and some of the rear brake line has been replaced by a shop. I don’t have the facilities or second set of hands to do some stuff. I haven’t found a brake fluid leak yet but anything that old, I have to figure anything original might be a culprit. That is the price of the old stuff.
Tires may happen next month. I plan to go with some kind of all terrain radial since its off road days are mostly over.