So glad to hear it's running.  I still get excited over a fresh engine start.   Give Jose my best, looking forward to meeting him. 

MS wrote:

Lessons learned, among many

Do NOT bypass the pink ignition wire by splicing into it, leaving a 1” piece of pink at each end of the new wire. While doing that simplifies the ignition wire getting through the firewall, it results in lower voltage. In this case, it resulted in 9.8 volts in RUN. Replacing the pink wire altogether resulted in 11 volts in RUN.

WILL EITHER WAY WORK? Yes, I have run durasparks off the pink wire alone back in my lesser experienced days, without issue, but they are supposed to have full system voltage. To do it right, eliminate the entire pink wire from the system. The pink wire is a resistance wire designed to reduce the 12 volts down to 9 volts for use with the original points ignition.

I'll have to admit that many years ago, (about 1999 or so) I had asked you about whether to run a separate wire to the  Duraspark module I was installing, or to just leave the pink wire in and your response to me was "why don't you just leave ole pinky in there" so I did.  The Duraspark ran fine with no issues with the 250/6 that I had installed and when it crapped out in 2000  I put in the 351W with the MSD system, and I never swapped over to a non resistor wire - yet it still works fine with no issues at all and that's been 21 years.
 

Two of my current favorite pics.  One of Jose’s car having been in my driveway. One of it having been in my shop.

Nos681 wrote:

Absinthe makes the heart fonder😂

 
Was that  Freudian slip?