I dunno, Gordy. What you've made looks actually useful!
Here's the latest on the gas tank: I welded up skirts to the end pieces, filled them and then molded a new, functional, correct-looking vent for the back of it and glued that on with kitty hair (which it's made out of).
Installed the vent piece in the filler neck with epoxy. . . 
(Those two pieces will connect with a hose under the tank cover so the vent will actually work)
Primed the tank cover
Fit the (functional, relay) sending unit
(The real sending unit will be wired to this one under the cover)
Nut-certed all the holes so when it's assembled it might hold together
Epoxied studs in on the driver's side when I discovered that neither nut-certs nor a reinforcement plate would fit without interference from the steering box.
And then test-fit the whole mess one final time before paint.
Hood closes, and latches, and the hood pins work as they should. Snazzy, eh?
Now I just gotta paint the cover, attach the straps, shorten those silly studs jutting out from in front of the steering box, and source and install the actual fuel level sending switch so the gauge will work.
Oh, yeah, and two bits of velcro for the top edges of the tank cover ends to keep them from rattling about when underway.
