[SCOTI]

If I had it to do over again . . .... buy a separate frame & perform all the work to it . . . . . then just swap the parts over when it's complete. This does several different things @ once. It gives you another frame for reference w/mods, it allows you to easily move & store the body w/o worry, & it's alot easier to just unbolt stuff from one & swap it over to the other right away so you remember how it was done.

When all is said & done, you can sell your frame for whatever the 'swap' frame cost so your only temporarily out of pocket.

I took my 67 all the way down, blasted everything, then epoxy primer & painted it only to keep doing more/different mods that required more grinding, welding, & drilling which kind of 'ruined' the whole strip-n-paint philosophy. Besides the problem of no workspace because I've got a disassembled truck scattered about, after having to move the body back & forth out of the way when making mods, I finally went out & just bought another rolling chassis, turbo400 w/yoke, & driveshaft for $300. Now I'll 're-do' the mods I did to the other frame so the whole thing looks like it wasn't one afterthought after another. I know all my future projects will be done this way as well.
Scot