1971 Dodge Demon

Hellrats - I suggest you keep a close eye on all repairs and work out a pay-as-you-go plan.
My '69 Dart went into a reputable shop (recommended by a fellow car club buddy) about 4 years ago. My Dart was in his shop for over a year with some work progressing, then he suddenly stopped working on it and refused to give me a completion date. Needless to say, out of the shop it came. He closed up shop just a couple of weeks later.
Then it went into another shop that was recommended to me by a fabricator that had done some prior work for me. Again, in the shop for just over a year while he professed to be correcting work from the first shop. Then this shop tells me his general collision work is too profitable to set aside to work on my Dart so he's not going to do any more work on it. Out of this shop.
My Dart has now been in shop #3 for just over a year while he's been doing fantastic work making every body line arrow-straight and fixing the screw-ups from the first two shops. My Dart is scheduled to be delivered home on 08/23. Then the fun of assembly begins as it will be a painted rolling shell.
Oh yeah, shop #3 was recommended by a member here on FABO. I should have come here for a recommendation rather than from people I actually knew! LOL.
I'm anxious to see the progress of your build.