Everyone has been very supportive and the build process is more involved than the Restoration of a 68 KR shelby we did a while ago.
Where we started - When they were let in by the feds ' - this is what they found.
12 Feet of Brackish, sludgery, *****es Brew.
if you look at the Roush sign on the wall you can see the water mark.
The car was cleaned and steam cleaned and re cleaned before we got it. -- it still had to come apart. -
as we received the car, it was cleaned but every time we dug under a panel, moved a wire moved a line light grey ash like silt came from everywhere.
who knew what lurked in the construction of its core, what was trapped inside ready to fill the cabin AC, or engine, or -- --- or---- there was only once answer, it all had to come apart. - But one problem Peter Brock was arriving in less than 1 week to our shop!
so we pitched in and took everything we could out of the car, and boxed it up with masking tape tags, no massive tear down, just the items piled in for transport.
we then immediately washed and washed again. -- simple green was the cleaning agent of choice for the chassis.
We were also cleaning the shop like mad, expecting the event to have many many people. , -- as we got ready , we pushed her into place.
We polished up and had a great event, - then the work began.
We had a plan, and wanted to build one of the best Daytona Coupes ever built, with all the culminations of all the projects that had kept us up late nights in the past.
it would be serviceable, street capable and a no apologies fully functional car.
The AC would work, the sound would be manageable, ride and handling would be up to spec, and we would modernize where prudent and extend capability where opportunity presented itself.
In short, how to build a performance car that can beat all but a very few, re-constructed by a Silicon Valley Technical IT consultant and a California CAL-FIRE Fireman.
--Steve Wood