I had a body shop manager that used to work for me running the body shop at our VW dealership. He left to open his own shop and I let him take my 40 Chevy PU to finish. We had chopped it and did alot of the work on it together so I thought it would make sense to have him finish it. Long story short is that after 16 months of getting very little done I went to his shop one day only to find the place empty and locked up. I walked around back and low and behold there was my 40 in the fenced in area but out in the elements in bare metal. I went to the hardware store and bought a bolt cutter and got a couple of my employees and a truck and got it back. I had to start over. But at least I got it back. That was the last hot rod I've built untill now. I sold the 40 in 1995, 12 years after the incident. I have this 29 Roadster that I've built over the last 18 months that is in need of paint and I have decided to give it a go myself this spring. I plan to post a thread on shop talk to get some advice from the more knowledgable people here. I cannot bring myself to let it out of my sight or should I say control. I don't have a Riddler contender so I think that with a little advice I'll be OK. Get your car back and hope that someone will take on an already started project, alot of guys will not. Good luck, it looks like a really nice project.