All right, I actually just found some "in progress" pictures that I can add as we go, but at this point I think it's probably time to explain what the overall goal is for this project and what my plans are. Ya know, so a year from now, when I'm doing something completely different, we can all come back to this post and laugh at me!
As I said, the car has been pointed a number of different directions before finally setting on a return to my first-love, the road racing theme... I will say that when I finally decided on this direction, it felt "Right" and I'm glad I finally got back to this.
When I had the '67 built, I stripped the car down to the tub myself, in a three car deep, one car wide garage under my apartment in the Sunset section of San Franciso (California and 17th if anyone is familiar with the area). Then I loaded it on a trailer and the car (and large stacks of money) dissapeard for about three years.
With that perspective in mind, I really wanted to do the '68 project in phases to minimze downtime and kind of develop how the car was going to work and what I was going to do with it as I went. That's stil an overriding philosophy of this project, even though it has taken an astronomical amount of time to get even part way through this first phase.
I wanted to use as much "off-the-shelf" upgrades as I could on this project.
I wanted a "real car" that I could drive every day if I wanted to.
I wanted to do most of the work myself.
So my expectation is that the car isn't going to be anything radical, but should be fun to drive, look decent and give me the ability to make relatively simple short term upgrades over time.
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