DADS50,
What a great video! Thank you for sharing. It really tugged at my heart strings because I also had the "help" of little ones in my project (I'm a grandfather now) and I also did my total restoration at home except for chrome plating, glass cutting and engine cylinder boring and bearing pouring.
And I found out that a motivated amateur like you or me can outdo the paid "professionals" and "experts". Thinking that a car show was just a gathering that people drove their cars to I drove my just finished '36 Chevy PU from Southern California to the 1976 VCCA National Meet in Colorado Springs. It was a distance of over 1300 miles across the desert Southwest and over 12,000+ foot high passes in the Rocky Mountains.
Only when I got to the show did I realize that I may have bitten off way more than I could chew. My competitors brought perfect looking shiny antiques in enclosed trailers towed by motor homes. And mine? Dirty from the long drive and bug splattered. All I could do was rinse it off at the coin car wash and dry it with a bath towel. But guess what? It won Class T-2 (1929-36 Commercial Vehicles) at that National show.
So, here's to guys like us who do the work ourselves and pass those skills on to our kids and grandkids.
And thanks again for that great video. I see you also used a tandem MC but upgraded to disc front brakes. Very cool!
Where in Nevada do you live? Reno?
