Hi, everyone! After a long wait it seems that the county will issue its permission for the builders to begin my garage. I stuck to my original requirement that the garage have a heated floor. All of my friends in the car club here (remember this is a U.S. steel V-8 powered club, of course!) tell me that I am good insisting on this! The lake 150' to the west froze for 3 days last winter, and with the heated floor my homebrew beer won't languish its processes until the floor heats up, like now. All this will become important when I need help lifting the body off, advising me on frame work, etc. I still don't know what its life along Southern California's coast has done for the car, but Southern Washington coast life clearly won't be an improvement!
A question for now: How essential is it to own a 2 post lift? I'm thinking that for a 1400 pound (or so) car, a few jack stands will suffice for the project, but is the lift overkill? I am beginning to think that although the stall I will restore the car in will be roughly 14' by 23', a lift in the middle, where the car will be, might become an annoyance...