Carter to Holley...

We, and by "we" I mean my son, stripped the fuel inlet on our BBS carb (65 Valiant) trashing it. To be fair, it's probably a blessing in disguise since it was pretty messed up having been victim to a bad reman job. All we have on hand to replace it is a Holley 1920 from my 69 Dart. The throttle linkages aren't the same but it looks like I could adapt the rotator rod connector from the 65 carb onto the cable driven Holley. Is that a legit way to make this work or is there a better way other than swapping for a cable mechanism? not apposed to swapping it, but we're just trying to get this thing working for now.