I feel that I've made it to a point where I can start my build thread.
After researching and debating for months I finally made my order with Alec on July 23rd. I'll give a quick background leading up to the Hurricane decision in case others find themselves in the same shoes as me.
I originally got lured in by the attractive price of the Factory Five base kit. I thought I could probably save some money and do a budget build using donor parts. After reading a lot of build threads and watching some YouTube I quickly realized most donor parts I would want to just replace/upgrade with new parts. I then found a couple of partially completed kits for sale on marketplace and actually had a deal made but the owner backed out. Just as I was about to pull the trigger on a FFR base kit I searched marketplace again and found a Shell Valley kit. I researched the Shell Valley kits and this led me down the rabbit hole of going back and looking at many of the kit manufacturers and that's how I landed here with a Hurricane.
After reading on here and other forums I learned about how the Hurricane kits had some features that would make them look more accurate to the originals (pedals on the bottom of the footbox, visible roll bar behind the seat, correct body, etc.). I also felt the fiberglass tub had advantages over the riveted on panels and trying to seal them. Finally after plugging in the numbers, the Hurricane kit optioned how I wanted it was cheaper than the FFR base kit with parts that I would end up upgrading, plus I got 3 link and the Ford 9".
Roughly two weeks ago Todd with Stewart called me to set up my delivery. After there being a truck malfunction which set things back a week, the car was scheduling to be picked up Feb. 2nd. Another truck breakdown delayed pickup a day, but Eric (Stewart driver) was headed east with my kit, right on the tails of the winter mess of snow and ice. Eric called and we planned for an afternoon delivery on the 4th, however due to the horrible weather Eric would get within 15 min. of my house before having to park for the night due to maxing out the amount of hours he could legally drive. Good things come to those who wait and at 8AM sharp Eric came rolling down the road and we unloading everything in about a half hour without issue.
Besides finding the build manual and looking at the boxes piled around that's as far as I got on it today. It still doesn't quite seem real, I've looked at so many build threads seeing pictures of everyone's cars and I can't believe there's actually one sitting in my garage now.
This is long enough for now, enjoy the couple pics.
