I understand what your saying. But all shops were either suspension, metal fab and classic autobody shops. It basically came down to people promising one thing & delivered another (ie 1st shop replacing the rockers and not test fitting the doors, using 1/4" of bondo on a smoothed firewall and "paint prison" for 1 1/2 year when I was quoted 4 months).
I was trying to build a SEMA quality truck & the final product fell a little short. As they say "it's all in the details". I think my biggest mistake was to find a local shop that did "good work", show them pics of what I wanted and have them tell me no problem. I should have put the truck on a trailer and actually taken it to the shop that originally built the car I saw in the magazine. I probably would have spent the same amount of money in the long run & had a better out come.
But I still love driving these "old" cars and I'm looking forward to hitting some car shows and maybe even see if I can drive this thing at the track (I live 20min from the Fontana Speedway, 10min from Adams track were Rob from No Limit goes).
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