Doesnt surprise me! I remember starting mine thinking, give me a summer and a small amount of cash and she'll be rolling in time for the winter. Well, here we are in Jan and she's nearly (but not quite!) finished! Hopefully be wrapped up at Easter (at uni, so can only work on her when i'm back home for hols). Remember my bulkhead not being much better than yours, decided to go for a galvanised bulkhead from Ashtree in the end, to match the new galvanised chassis. Body works nearly finished on her now, tub all finished and sprayed, new front wings (inner & outer), new floor and rear quarter panels on the tub (didn't just wack in checker plate, replaced with aluminium, never understood why people just wack in plate to cover up a crap floor..). Only wings & roof to paint before she's pretty much sealed up again. Then it's electrics..
Only advice would be to pace yourself. Several times I found myself at a real loose end with the thing, sucks hours and hours out of you - quite literally drains you. If you havnt got a workshop, I would reccomend working in very small steps. To strip a vehicle down takes days, to rebuild one takes months. Its easy to get caught up in excitement (I did!) and break them down. Don't take things off unless you have to - silly things like inner wing mounts just start to cease to exist once you start disturbing them. Best of all try and have fun doing it (though granted, of all the words I describe my project as, 'fun' is not one of them). Just make sure she doesnt end up on ebay as an incomplete project!
Best of luck though - look forward to seeing the results!
Matt
