Captainkirk's Duster project

I am, I have realized, getting swept up in the current and dragged down-river.
What started out 10 years ago as an 'exploratory tear-down' on the Heart of The Duke has turned into...well, a complete engine build. I am partially to blame for this. I could have simply run a flex hone though the bores, re-ringed the pop-top pistons, replaced the lifters and buttoned 'er up, run octane booster in the fuel and let the chips fall where they may.
The 'A-R' part of me refused to let that happen.
I did not need to strip every mother-lovin' piece of suspension off The Duke either...it rolled IN to the garage, it could have rolled OUT.
Nope, I have to lay the blame squarely where it belongs...on my shoulders. Some folks say "If it ain't broke, don't fix it". My motto should be "If it ain't broke, overhaul it anyway". And that may end up being the death knell of this project. But I'm in this deep, might as well keep swimming. Sometimes I have to remind myself to paddle, breathe, and keep kicking, but if I do ever finish this thing, I guarantee two things:
1) I will never sell it. I'd never get back what's being put into it, and;
2) It will have been worth the effort.
I'm very much looking forward to the day I can scoot the bucket seat forward, depress the clutch pedal and listen to that Very Annoying Buzzer buzzing, then thumb the ignition and hear The Duke cackling; "Hello Cappy!" Even if I DO hate when he calls me that...