Made some more progress. was happy to get the engine fired up and running for the first time in about 10 years. It now starts instantly and will idle after it warms up a bit (choke not hooked up). Leaking oil around the filter, need to look into that. Gauge panel seems to work with the oil pressure gauge and light functioning. Alternator light goes out when running and I think the temp gauge works. Tach is dead, another tach read to high and I haven't tried the third tach yet. Brakes bled, clutch bled. Exhaust under construction with turbo muffler and some 90 degree bends that showed up today. Next project to tackle is the heater. The car came with a later AC system added on and I removed that. Soon as I source a non-AC heater assembly I will install and struggle with the three cables.
I think at this point I could actually putter around the block which would be the first time in about 10 years it moved under it's own power.
I may take a small break and cobble up some aluminum door panels for the red Bertone. The factory door panels look OK but are all swollen up with all the rain we have had. I put aluminum door panels on one of my spiders and it looked very racy....in style with the theme of that spider and I hope to get the same effect for the gutted red Bertone. I got the 2'x4' aluminum panels from Lowes but they are very expensive.