[Ron Fox]

Yes, I agree, calling would be a better way to get a quicker response.

It took me a year+ to find a restoration shop that I was comfortable with and had experience. I asked at car shows, cousins, ect. about restoration shops in my area and the surrounding areas. I visited many shops and finally found a shop about 45 minutes away from me. The shop I found is ran out of the builders house. A nice clean, organized shop. It took me several months to get to know my builder, his ways, and to check out his references, before my car was put into his shop. When my car first went into the shop I helped with the tear down and cleaned and media blasted all the small parts I could (which saved me money and I learned several things along the way). He always lets me get my hands dirty when I want. He has several cars in the shop at the moment (7+ cars) and he does not charge a storage fee. He lets the car owners pay in stages so he rotates on working on the cars. And in my situation I have been waiting on him (metal stage) for awhile now which has given me a chance to save more car fund money. He has one to two people helping him which seems to make my build drag on and on.

How do you get free labor lol? Or do you work on your car?

Saw your PM. Bought most of my sheet metal from Classic and hopefully the full floor will not be too short. I have not talked to my builder about NOS parts just yet and I never thought about the repo floor not fitting with the NOS quarters. Man, this building thing is just one huge jigsaw puzzle.