Team Daily FFR Mk3.1 Build: Finally.....Some Updates

I apologize for the long delay in updating our blog. Getting any kind of updates or commitments from the body shop has been an extremely painful process. We have been told "it will be done at the end of the month" on at least four occasions. Of course the month would come and go.....and nothing would be finished. But every time we would begin to completely lose faith a vague email or even a photo would arrive to revive our spirits. At first we were thinking that this aggravating process was limited to just our car, and our body shop. But when I started talking with others who have built or refurbished old cars, I quickly learned that the entire antique auto body industry is based on glacier like progress. I can't tell you how many time I was told "If you get your car back within a year, you're lucky." We even spoke with another gentleman who had his car finished by Whitbys and shared similar stories. Here's the good part, though. He said that if the car hadn't been flawless when if finally arrived, he would have been pissed. Needless to say, he's very happy and said that we would be too when we finally did get the car. Well, we're closing in on 11 months now and I'm happy to report that Whitbys has finally committed to a completion date of September 15th. Of course, everybody at my office has reminded me that he didn't specify a year! I won't believe it until I actually see it, but this time it appears to be the real deal. Brad said he wouldn't buy his plane ticket down here until they were sure, and they told him to go ahead and get the ticket. They're even in the process now of getting the car titled in North Carolina as a 1965 Cobra, which should make tagging the car in Georgia much easier.

Well, it's not a lot but these pictures represent the bulk of pictures we have received in 11 months. (actually that's not true, we did receive a lot of pictures a while back but had to point out that they weren't of our car) Enjoy...I know I did when they arrived!