Let's begin at the beginning!

Around May 2010, Pat Cox, owner and operator of KC AutoWorks, and I procured this fine F100 from a great guy over in KCK. He had redone the floors, got the engine running nicely, and had the truck sitting at the appropriate height. The lowering had been done in the classic hot rod style, and the straight axle minus suspension was equal parts fun AND scary. We drove around on the original V-8 Y block well into early fall, and after Greaserama 2010, we got to work!

This was how the truck appeared the day we found it: