sooner
You will get a lot of free advice here, take it for what it's worth.
You must decide what you want the finished product to look like and ride like. You have the option to bring it back to a perfect original condition or to turn it into a rat rod. The end results need to be what pleases you. Just don't bite off more than you can chew. As the old adage says, "count the costs before you start writing checks".
