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Happy to report lots of progress.

Everything under the car is done. Crossmember, frame brace, actually, I still need to zip-tie my E-brake cables up and out of the way, but that's 2 minutes of work.

Today I got the distributor in myself, plug wires plugged in, hopefully worked out my air cleaner situation, (I'll know in a couple days).

All that's really left to do is confirm oil pressure with no plugs, install plugs after oil pressure is confirmed, add coolant, put the air cleaners back on, and probably a couple other things I've forgotten, but it's as close as I'm going with this alone.

I'm gaining confidence as I work on this car, shit, after working on this car I should be able to fix anything!

Still though, there's just a lot of stuff going on, even the air cleaners take a bit of time to R&R. It is CLOSE to running again though.

I hope tomorrow, if I can get some supervision, and a timing light, we should have the car running at least well enough for me to take things from that point without need of anyone's help.

I also plan on forming a relationship with a shop that Chuck recommended that DOES do work on our cars (Every other shop I called in town won't work on Panteras, just won't even take the job on-kind of understandably) but life is good.

Progress is being made, the car will run in the next day or so, I'll then be spending a few more days buttoning up the rest of the car, cleaning, checking, and hopefully begin my new relationship with my new love.