Well, once the car came home at the end of 2008, the housing market was such that we decided to make a move. Smaller house, more property and hopefully a shop. All of 2009 was preparing the house, selling the house, and living in temporary housing. 2010 was moving in, getting settled and completing various projects around the place (1/2 the square footage, with large property and shop).
I did start a few projects on the car, mainly cleaning the chassis and giving it the black bomb treatment. I don't want to be afraid to drive it. I also installed the sound deadener. With many of the house projects done, I started doing more projects in 2011 though it was slow without the budget to go whole hog. This fall we decided to finish the car which meant allocating the proper finances to the project. Then it was about ordering many parts. Now I have a lot of parts and I'm working heavily when I can on making headway.
Also, rebuilding the AC box and the dash was a complex challenge of determining and finding the right parts since the car was originally a non-ac car. It was a slow process. Now that the dash and column are in, which is probably the most complex part of the car, the rest of the projects are relatively straight forward.
After I get the lights ready to go, the next project will probably be recovering the seats. The original blue interior would look pretty bad with the purple paint. White will look a lot better.
Since it's getting more exciting, I'll try to keep this thread more updated.
