Not too much new to report.  I was going to do something with the rear brakes, examined them for a while and then put the wheel back on and jacked the front back up.  The torsion mount needs to be the focus.  I finally got the rusted-to-hell brake front brake cable off of the torsion mount clip by cutting the cable and wrestling it with a vice grip.  My 4-inch grinder/cutter is not going to work for cutting out rusted metal in there, it's too clumsy, I need to find some other tool for that.  The rod holding the intermediate cable in place for the parking brake would not let me loosen the nut so I just cut it out and mentally added it to my parts list.  Tried to remove the front cable from the brake lever in the cockpit but I think I have another rusted nut to loosen from an awkward position, so I just coated it with liquid wrench for now... along with every other exposed nut/bolt I could see under the steering column.

Unbolted some clips holding the brake and fuel lines on the right side of the engine compartment... took the rear clip out of the left torsion bar and tried to loosen the adjusting bolt on the front... no budge at all, even with the breaking bar.  I coated everything I could see on the left side up there with liquid wrench and inspected the further-mangled frame rail.  There really isn't much good metal left in a lot of those sections, I hope that slip-on (and weld) frame rail is strong enough without any real structural support from the underlying original frame.

I am considering just dropping the whole front end... I need to make some kind of support for the front end before I do that, rather than propping it up with an immobile frame of some sort.  May be some metal fabrication and casters in my future for that, I dunno.  I need the car farther off the ground to be able to work on that torsion mount, it's very awkward under there.

I got a free air compressor... just 20 gallons and it needs a replacement regulator valve.  I ordered a $20 replacement and it didn't fit of course.  I may just cap off the regulator, but I need a 1-inch end cap for it and I haven't been able to locate one.

Looking more closely at the torsion bar mount, I think I need to remove both torsion bars and the crossmember so I can remove/replace a falling-apart doughnut bushing/mount dealio in order to clean it up enough to cleanly get the repair piece in there and weld it in properly.  I wish I had a rotisserie.