3rd redo of installing the super six manifolds....help with gaskets

I did that job in 1995 or so, on my Volare. I was a lot younger then. I tried to remember what trick I might have used, but no luck. I know it wasn't hard to install. But it was hard to line stuff up to where the nuts would fit. I do remember a lot of prying this way and that.
I kinda remember making some line up pins........