thank you so much! i will check that out. i have saved up somewhere in the ballpark figure of 12000 dollars and i already have the truck and i fully capable shop with a staff who is there to help with questions and such. it is an auto skills shop on an air force base that i have access to with my military status. i also have two months when i return home before i have to go back to work. so i am thinking i can spend four or five days a week working on this truck and with my lump sum of funding i can have it driveable in a month and a half or so. all i will be doing is working on this truck. no job yet, no school, so i should be able to make some killer progress granted i can find all the parts. thanks again.
Jonathan