On December 27, 2008 I went to Ozark, AL and scoped out my future ride.  When I found it two of my friends that were with me thought I had lost my and mind and was getting myself in way too deep.

  On December 28, 2008,  I took my father and girlfriend back up to Ozark with me to look at it and my father did not see what I saw, but I reassured him that there was more to it and I saw what it could be.

  On January 11, 2009, I went and picked it up, literally, and put it on a trailer and hauled it half way home and had to put a ratchet strap around the door post to hold the body together. Then we finally made to its new home.

  The next weekend we pulled the trailor behind the barn and unloaded it and started to try and straighten the body out. We welded the doors to the cowl, bowed the back of the body out, straightened the top of the windsheild, and put a run of new wood around the top.

 Later on in the week we channeled the body, cut the doors loose and built new fender wells.

  The following weekend we took the body off of the frame and cut everything loose off the frame that was not needed on the final product. Later in the afternoon we cleaned out the barn and placed the frame and body in the barn.

  The next week started thinking about how the frame needed to be extended. I started cutting the frame where it needed to be kicked up in the back and cut the front horn off to extend it. 

I am now going to break it down into months.

February: Frame extended, front end mount made, wishbone attached to frame, and first motor mounts built.

March: Second set of motor mounts built, had custom radiator built, went on parts hunt-found grille and rearend, remounted motor, built headers, got front end completly mounted, springs are too long, took front end back apart and cut springs down- still to long, and finally cut it where it was the right fit, house flooded and the barn lacked 2" from being flooded.

April: Majority of month fixing my house, mounted rearend, mounted steering box, rolled the car out for the first time, and took a much needed break until the beginning of May.

May: Built skeleton of floor board, built all transmission humps, transmission mount, cranked the motor for the first time- LOUD!!, did some body work-filled 70% of rust-and rest to come, and disassembled the whole car.

June: Frame sandblasted, boxed, finished completly welding,painting, reassembled frame, body, and motor, found out where brake pedal and master cylinder needed to go.

July: finally up to what I am working on presently. Mounted master cylinder and brake pedal- had to "customize" the brake pedal arm, plumbed brakes and partial gas lines, reinstalled motor and finally pressurizing brakes.