Thanks for the warm welcome!
In case you were wondering here is what my car looked like when dad and I got it from the junkyard...project was from 1999 to 2005 when I drove it from San Diego to College Station. It was my daily til '07 including tracking it at Texas World Speedway and AutoXing. I drove it back home in '08 to build my 428CJ.
That's the short story...