My cousin came over and provided a helping hand, so I had some real progress this weekend.. installed front beam, shocks and rotor/hubs. Also made a spring compressing tool and installed the spring plates and 1 trailing arm.. the other pivot bolt threads were a little damaged, so I'm getting replacement or I would have had both trailing arms installed. ( @WOLFGANG, only 38.75 more hours why do I think that hours estimate is off by an exponent or 2?)
The presidential ride along at Tour de Smo got me re-energized.. thanks again @Stan Galat.
@Gordon Nichols looks like you went with the transparent aluminum steering column, nice choice.