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Good suggestion - I'm ahead of you with the car cover and had it purchased the day I brought the donor home. It is now underneath said cover and I'll be turning it around to face the house so the missing hood isn't so apparent. I'm in full agreement that it's an eyesore, I'm just surprised at the quickness of the neighbor though perhaps I shouldn't be, our municipality provides a live app to report with now. Whether it is enough to satisfy the city, well, we will see. I suspect between the cover and having one of these in the shop at most times should be sufficient to keep everyone off my case long enough to cut what I need off the donor husk and send it to scrap. Regardless, I've got inflated roller tires on both vehicles and the cover on the donor now. Going to clear some space in the garage/shop to push things in and out so I can start fabricating. Picked up the final major piece to the puzzle for a while yesterday as well - a relatively fresh 5 speed cable transmission - the only major part the donor didn't have.

Yep, been done many times. Start here: I compiled all of the information I could find at the time into a pdf after completing my first, nearly 20 years ago. It's still available there. There are hundreds of combinations and approaches to do this, depending on your budget, skills and goals. Some of what we did then involves parts that are basically impossible to find now. Reliable daily? Drag Racing? Circuit? Ice racing? Rally? Mudding? Sand dunes? Rock crawling? It's all been done.