Dave, I appreciate the sage advice, but I'm just hoping that someone might know someone of quality who might have an unexpected opening or someone of quality who is just getting started with his own shop after working for someone else or something like that.

I'm just sick of playing the waiting game. I've been waiting a year for my motorcycle, waited forever for some house repairs, been waiting 7 years on my Camaro that got put on the backburner. I'm tired of waiting and just want to put some rubber to the road.

The work needed on the Nova doesn't seem all that complicated, so a good builder/mechanic could probably knock it out fairly quickly.