Small Things - Dash Trim
 

Good thing about clean cars is some items like the dash molding can easily clean up without any fancy expensive rechrome. I lucked on this piece.

Parking Brake
 

With the cooler days its time to work on small things. Park brake assembly was in good shape.

I want to say thank you for sharing your incredible talent with these cars with us! I look daily for updates on your builds.
Do you have a trick with restoring the plastic pull handle on this Emergency brake handle or will you replace it ?

Sometimes you have cars you can restore the old piece. With more southern clean cars most plastic and rubber is just destroyed. For a car like this it will probably be a repop piece that like many i will rework what I dont like.

Upper Control Arms, Ball Joints, and Axles
 

The updates will keep coming fast during chassis assembly. Things will slow down once i have the frame on some wheels. Thats just how it works.

New ball joints installed. It would be nice to do the original rivets but i find that process kinda painful, especially when working with a finished painted arm. I go with the traditional bolts, but I do modify them to look like rivets on the underside as the picture shows. Just my flavor of doing things.

Im thinking this weekend if the weather is crappy it will be time to get the lower arms in with the springs. My fear on this car is i will be pulling them off once fully assembled to adjust the ride height because of the weight reduced motor. I called a few places about this and frankly was not encouraged by just use our small block springs. We shall see how things shake out.

Looks great!

Small detail but I think the fasteners on the upper ball joints are reversed - the riveted looking part goes in from the top of the ball joint and the retaining nuts on the bottom underneath.

I choose the orientation such that if in a judged event the rivet like bolt is seen from the bottom. Less likely someone sticks or even fits there head in the wheel wheel to see the bolts, nuts and washers.

Clutch and Brake Pedal Assembly
 

The original setup was in sad shape. Someone had broken the clutch bracket right off the pedal which I have seen before. Sourced another complete pedal assembly. Complete tear down, bead blast, phosphate and paint before reassembly. Lucky to have found all the little pieces that are part of the neutral safety switch for 69.

Restored Before Assembly
 

Missed one picture

That's some nice detailing!