Well, I'm an old fart, but I'm new to this forum so howdy! I'm about to do a restart on my 1930 Model A coupe hotrod project. My dad bought the coupe when I was about four years old...around 60 years ago. When the '38 Buick Special that was our family car died, the coupe became our daily driver until he could find/afford something newer. Imagine a family of five, plus a dog, in a Model A coupe! I sat in the middle, my two-year-old sister stretched out on the package tray behind our heads, Mom held my baby sister, and the dog was on the floor by Mom's feet. Obviously, my folks aren't big people!

Eventually, Dad gave the coupe to my maternal grandfather, who gave it to me when I was 14. I drove it away from our wedding and for a while longer. The old mechanical brakes finally got too scary to be road worthy, so it got parked while my wife and I raised our own three kids.

A few years ago, I decided to rod it so we could actually drive it at highway speeds comfortably. I was doing most of the work myself, with the aid and advice from a mechanic friend of mine. He built the SBC motor for me, I had the body mostly finished, and the chassis is done up to needing brake lines run and a new rack and pinion to go on the Mustang IFS. Then my buddy got sick. His kidneys failed, he went on dialysis, and finally got a new kidney at the VA. Unfortunately, things went downhill from there and he passed away. I lost my desire to work on the coupe, and again it sat in my garage in pieces.

Recently we have decided to sell our home and move to our cabin, so all the stuff we've accumulated in the last 20+ years has to be relocated, including the coupe. That has kind of forced my hand, much to my wife's delight. My mechanic buddy's brother-in-law, also a close friend of mine, recently retired and offered to help me finish the coupe. That brings me here to relearn a lot of the crap I've forgotten about building a rod.

It kind of tickles me to be a "Junior Member" here. I haven't been a junior anything for quite some time, lol!