@davidnunn I suppose I should rephrase that. Either the car will be returned with the vibration issue resolved and the engine properly tuned, or the car will be picked up non-op by the carrier and shipped to my house. What follows then will be finding someone that can work on the car that is a Pantera expert, hopefully not terribly far away from me.
I'm hoping for the former situation, but should the latter one occur, then I'll be getting the cost of the work done to correct the car back one way or another. I would have used Don Byars for the whole project, and he did actually see the car not long after I bought it. But it wasn't too long after that I learned that he became a one man shop with cars on every lift and a backlog that would still have my car waiting to go in today. The car, in its pre-project state, was equally undrivable due to the badly built 383 that was in the car before.
At the end of the day, I believe the problem has been isolated and I intend to get what I paid for out of the current shop in the time I have remaining. However, given the cost of the project to date, if the issues still aren't resolved by the time I depart, then things will get a lot less civil going forward.