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On another note, upon returning home, I found that my headliner had arrived. Now gotta figure out how to get it in the truck.

Been away for a bit, drove across the country again in our Chinook. Finally got to check out the land cruiser heritage museum. What a place!

My daughter loved the mega cruisers!!

I managed to visit as well! Was there on the 4th of this month. What a great place to spend time and be checking out land cruisers!

What a beast!

Chassis is rolling. Will get the body test set tomorrow/thursday

Back from the paint shop! Cheers

Switch blanks so that you have room to grow in the future. Only three of the pictured carling switches are currently wired to something.

Found some switches. Filled the holes. Will eventually reassign them in time. For now, they are just there for one single purpose, and that is to fill the holes.

Now, I will take @GLTHFJ60 's advise and possibly explore cig lighter removal and the ashtray even. How many switch locations are too many? I think adding a full line of switches on the bottom right, such as I have done on the top right might be...

Couple more pics.

The bezel arrived. Looks good. Will test fit this evening to check alignmentof holes and such. Came out real nice, and the finish is primer and paint ready.

Rear is mocked up. Local dealership had 6 bushes in stock so the rear is set.

"Italian tune-up" :cool: Several of my buddies had old Saabs when I was a kid their mechanic recommended driving it like they stole it from time to time to keep things in good working order.

Occasionally, rather rarely, it get to see the 3k rpm line.

Blowing the soot out the exhaust pipe!

Got a quiet exhaust done for it. Carried it all the way out to behind the wheel there. I may take it all the way out the back if I don't like it. Imma go see how it is.

Spoke to Tom Woods, they said to try balancing the shaft before I buy a dc shaft. Imma try doing that first.

Removed driveshaft, drove in fwd and it no longer makes any vibration. I need to speak to Tom Woods to see if I can get one of their custom dc shafts. Pfft, I wonder why the vibration didn't show itself right after the new lift and it only showed...

Hey @coffmedicine, can we have a phone convo? Lmk.

I wanted to stay close to oem. But good point. I may change it. Even though I don't smoke, I appreciate having a cig lighter. That thing could come in handy for cauterizing a wound or something, lol, u never know.

Been messing with the materials, but more than likely, it's gonna be aluminum.

I have been messing around with the center bezel. I have a good spare that is for a gasser, so it matches not what I have. I would have to get rid of my clock. Anyway, I modelled this sucker to see if I can get a quote to have it machined, and a...

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Right, I may have to reduce the number of those. 😆