I'm really having fun with this build!!! Maybe a bit of Deja Vu all over again??? I had a '56 Ford when I was 15-16, it too had the straight axle, etc. Then I got off into Super Stock racing with a friend of Dad's and became little more then a "hired gun" on race day--though I did have a "job" at his dealership. Never got to do much with the car we raced, just be the hey boy on work nights, wash it, load things, then bang the gears on Sundays. Thought I was a big shot, sold the little gasser style Ford. When I came across this '57 had to start wondering (again) what would have happend if I'd just stayed on my own car....... Guess I'll find out now!!!!