Couple of updates, nothing major.
So the new chassis was missing a few things under the hood. Some electrical stuff, the washer fluid bottle was broken, etc. Just little stuff. It also has shot wheel bearings up front. So, I swapped over all that stuff. Minus the front right suspension. Mine is rusted/seized onto the white car, so I'm going to need to bring home my giant impact gun, and probably my air hammer, to finish swapping that over. I also finally got around to swapping the soft-top cover over, so now the two-tone job it totally complete. All of the body panels are in their final spots.
Then I decided, maybe if it looked closer to a running and driving car, maybe I'll be more motivated to work on it whenever I see it. The new chassis has been missing some of those silly little gray side molding bits, and it drives me insane. See?
Well, I finally got around to prying them off the junk chassis, and attaching them to the new one. I used 3M spray adhesive. The stuff works amazingly well. While I was at it, I decided to do the first normal car owner type of thing to the car. I actually cleaned it. The thing was NASTY. It's still not exactly pretty, it's missing a ton of clearcoat, but hey. It's at least now in the form it'll be in when I start to daily drive the thing.
All I need to do now is finish putting the tranny together, finish rebuilding the wiring harness, get my engine back, rebuild that, and then put it all together. The list is getting shorter and shorter. Slowly, but hey. Progress.
UPDATE:
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I got the FR knuckle off, too. I gave up on taking off the control arm, since that's the part that has the nut thats absolutely ruined. I popped it off at the ball joint instead, and took just the knuckle on that side. I also took off both front struts, too. I figure once I've got the car all together and running, having spares to play with will be nice. I can try and figure out how to build a coilover out of the stock setup.