Thanks guys for all the comments... I'm sure many of you know the feeling of working for months... years... on a project, and this was about the 1 year mark for me and it was really sweet to be moving around the block! I'm in sunny southern California by the way, and the house is kind of a weird setup with all the garages opening out to a rear alley. The motor is a Ram Jet 502 crate, with 3" pypes exhaust and Spin Tech mufflers. They are currently dumping out in front of the axle, because I couldn't get them to run over the axle - figured I'd take it to the muffler shop later and have them do it.
When I first tried to get it going, it wouldn't go into gear - I had to pull the whole trans and adjust the clutch fork pivot ball. Thankfully, after 6 hours of surgery, it can go around the block just fine now...
Now on to the bodywork...
