"rusty ol cuda" nightmare on any street wheelstander project

this is the old 360 out of my pro figure eight car, it has been stored with no pushrods, the avs carbs will be going for a journey to pfogels for a rebuild, trans will be off to Zipp's 340 service for freshening, for now we are doin mockup to get throttle linkages and air cleaner/s figured out and mounted in the car, we'll get all that done and tear back down for finish welding and paint while the trans and carbs are getting massaged, long way to go on this build so the more Little details we accomplish early on will speed up the build, ive ran the engine to a few win's in the past so now its up to building the car and the new parts to go with it