I found an instrument harness at the junkyard. It has the connectors for the panel, but the wrong connectors for the harness in my car (auto A/C vs manual A/C which have different connectors). Given I only need a handful of wires, I'll add my own connectors (building my own harness essentially) and solve that problem.
I have a whole handful of connectors i need from the rest of the car that didn't come with the donor. Brian over at iWire was a huge help! He sourced the connectors for me and dropped them in a box that he is shipping my way for a very reasonable sum. I am tremendously grateful. That left just the fuel pump controller and I found one on ebay and it is on its way too. Even If I'm not making progress, at least my credit card still is
For the vacation, I was actually planning on scheduling one to work on the car. I have a schedule that I've been trying to hit, and the last several months I've made very little progress on the car and I'm now officially behind on my 2 year build plan. So somewhere in the next month or so, I want to take some time off from work and push through the wiring and perhaps even get to first start. Then I'm sure I'll get stuck on the body for a while