Thanks guys.
Been a little busy and not a lot of progress.
Over the last few days I finally completed the last piece of the dash puzzle.
The original AC controls looked awful, like they were out of a mid 70's gm pos hah.
So after a bit of searching I randomly bought the controls from a 2004 Ford Fusion and adapted them to work.
It has a mechanical blend door and vacuum controls.
I had to turn down and machine the original blend door lever to fit in the new housing, worked a treat. Then had to swap the cables to get the heat/cool function working the correct direction.
Then I machined up a new walnut face plate, I'll laser engrave all the little symbols at a later date.
Quite the difference:
Next up in preparation for reinstalling the dash was a layer of sound deadening and heat killing heavy stuff. Looks like the space station in here now.
Tonight I hope to get the dash back in at least partially.