Tommy, you bring up a very valid point. All of these TV shows on building bikes and cars have lots of people thinking it's a piece of cake. "Heck, they built that one in a one hour show.....how hard can it be??"

I'm all for new people coming into the hobby, and everybody has to start somewhere, but a good percentage of these folks are headed in the wrong direction to start out. Even a seasoned builder would shy away from what amounts to half of a fordor sedan, and not a very good one to boot.

I have always said a first timer should either buy a car that is done, and make it his/her own, or a mostly finished project that they have some chance of completing. Anyone who has done one from drawings on the garage floor knows it ain't easy.

Don