Nice job Jim.
While following your reports on your truck's restoration you've taken us through the many steps your "restoration team" has performed. It's clear that you decided to take the role of owner here rather than wrench-bender, although it was your weilding the heavy tool ( the pen to sign the checks) that allowed this project to move forward.
Now since you have done such a through job of documenting the restoration process, I wonder if you would complete your chronicle and provide us with the costs, I'm sure you have them itemized, so that we who are scraping our knuckles can see the value in doing the labor ourselves. In addition you can provide a valuable asset in furnishing current restoration costs should someone else decide to have a shop do their restoration or even part of their restoration that they do not feel comfortable performing. You have a chance to provide coveted information for your fellow Stovebolter's.....will you finish the documentation?