I had to get help to get the transmission coaxed all the way into position. Even then we worked
quite a bit to get it done. I must have gotten the clutch plate a tad off center.



I had to buy a few fastners today,  for bolting the bellhousing to the engine. Some of the bolts
that came with the adapter kit were a bit too short for my liking.
I have some after market gauges, and  ofcourse the temp sender doesn't fit. I went to a hydraulic
shop, and they had a thingy that fit the thread in my engine, but not to the sender. So a guy put the
thingy in the lathe, chopped it off, drilled a bigger hole through it, and ran a tap through it, so now
the sender fits. The thingymajig, the labour and a cupper washer amounted to the grand total of
16 ?uros. That's about $17.50. Unbelievable.
They took pity in me, I guess.

My brother got his license when he was 14. Farm kids could get them and I don't remember there being restrictions on them. That was Texas in 1954. In order to use the family car or Dad's pickup he had to take me with him a lot. I was 9. Within a year our '50 Plymouth was a lot shinier and had a set of Studebaker hub caps.(poor man's Moons) The newly painted '52 Dodge pickup had real Moons and his car club plaque. When I graduated high school in '58 he and I took his  '39 Ford coupe to California where he was moving to go to school. 18 & 13 in a pretty cool hotrod what a trip! We moved to California the next year so I had to wait until I wa 16 for my license but by then I had a '38 coupe ready that my brother gave me. I wish I had pictures of those side by side or any at all.

Thanks Essex.  Today I installed the shifter and levers. It's a bit more "bling" than I wanted but it'll do.
Also I used the lower mount from the 68 column. 
I'm gonna make a list of things I need to order. 
1.) 1"dd to 3/4" universal joint.
2.) 3/4" dd Rod
3.) Steering column pigtail kit.  Mine had no connectors,  just the plastic plug.
4.) A new tachometer.  Mine won't mount to the column.
5.) Column shifter linkage kit. 

For now  everything is on hold , till parts come.

Thank you all for the positive comments!

I had a hickup with some weird silicone crap on my engine parts which prevcented the paint to
stick. It seems okay now, but I think I might sand and paint the valve covers again.

I've been doing little things, like cutting paper gaskets and for the distributors and putting new
 seals in them. They'll mount on the ends of the camshafts, so it's a bit different than the old
V8s I usually work on.
Painting engine mounts, waterpump and pulleys, mounting some stuff and so on.
Today I finally got to take out the big box I ordered from PMC (a Polish company) that contains
 the engine to transmission adapter. The box has been warming its shelf for years already.
The aluminum flywheel with its cast steel friction surface looks phenomenal, it's like technical
porn. It sandwiches the flex plate to the crank, so the starter has something to engage to.

Rattiac, love your steering wheel. Looks like early Camaro/ Corvette.

Look inside the shift boss, you should see a little hole the spring sets in. Put some heavy grease on the spring to hold it there, shove shifter in and pin it. Pending spring stiffness, may have to hold in hard. Could go to one side with a punch to align the hole while you insert the pin.