My '56 Big-Window makes some progress, and I got a new job!!!

[CircusWagonJim]

Hey guys, been a while since I checked in- had MANY things happen and it's all starting to level out. Last big news I had was that I was building my '56 Pickup as the new Rod & Custom Magazine "Dream Truck". Well, that's not going to happen because they needed to save a few pennies and let me go (under good terms and I'm still doing stories freelance), but this gave me the BIG push I needed to get started on something I had been planning for a year- starting MY OWN SO-CAL Speed Shop franchise location. That's taken a few months to get all the legal stuff in order, and I'm making the debut for SO-CAL Speed Shop Los Angeles at the Grand National Roadster Show at the end of the month.

Among all the turmoil I managed to buy a PERFECT big window cab for my truck and swap it on for the destroyed small-window unit and got my engine detailed (a '62 283) and mated it to a 200R4 trans that will appear in an upcoming tech article in Custom Classic Trucks. My engine will be in a story in the next issue of Rod & Custom and you'll see it on the cover in the top right corner. The truck will be my new shop truck and obviously my deep interest in them will mean that my SO-CAL store will be "truck-friendly".

I plan on participating on the board more now that I'm getting past the extreme career change. Thanks Jim