Well it has started. We picked up the car Monday, got it setup in the garage and had a celebratory whiskey to cap off the day. Was able to make light work getting the chassis off the trailer by picking it with my tractor and then used an engine crane to wheel in into the garage. I've been plowing through boxes as much as time allows me and have only a couple more left. My dad came by on Thursday for day 1. We only had a few hours to work on it together so we were able to remove the body and store it away outside, as well as remove all the aluminum panels from the chassis. For the body buck I built, I combined the plywood measurements from the FFR template along with some ideas and dimensions from a low profile body buck I saw in a past forum post. My plan was to store it under my pool deck in the background of the picture and only had about 38" of clearance, which ended up being more than enough. Getting together again on Monday to crank through the front suspension. I'm still flying high with excitement to finally have this home in my garage now. FFR did a great job with everything and helped make an amazing, memorable day for us.

We ended up deciding on going with the Mk4 Complete Build kit. Some of the features it will have are Blueprint 347 EFI, IRS, double chrome rollbars, SS side pipes with Drummer Mike heat shields, and 17" Halibrand Wheels with Nitto 555 G2s. We are planning on putting in a quick release steering wheel in combination with one of Frank's I.E. 427 Garage turn signals as well.

Here are some pictures of the arrival day and progress so far:

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