Ha ha ha ha, I have returned. The car is finally almost done. It sat since my last post here, until about a month ago, with almost no progress. I didn't want to raise hell (out of fear of jeopardizing the car) but I finally did by letting the guy know that I was coming by to pick it up. He said "it's not ready yet..." to which I replied "I know". When I and he discovered that his contract didn't have anything in it regarding incremental progress, and that I would owe him NOTHING if the job wasn't done, he really got things in gear.

Anyway, it gave me time to work on things like a really nice suspension rebuild, saving money for other parts, etc. Oh, and I also built a nice little 4-car garage in the meantime. When I remember how to post pictures here, I'll put some up of the progres...