[TWOOD]

Terry, I took photos of my handles today. I will try to get them into my gallery, tonight or tomorrow. I have a mechanism very similar to Art Burtt's and in the same location as his.
The difference is I choose to make the linkage move upward with a lever mounted to a shaft which passed through a bronze bushing epoxied to the body. This way I can use the billet aluminum levers from Watson's street works (supplied by CRII). The issue of water should be greatly reduced if not eliminated. A little silicone grease between the shaft as it passes through the bushing should be enough.
I'm just using a round plastic knob presently while I have the car off to the painter next week, so the billet levers don't get messed up.
Hope this gives you another oiption.
I hated the though of using cables, too. Tom