hi dadsbee....
i can really relate to your story. i have 7 68-69 Barracudas and i started on one 68 when i returned from Iraq in 2006. it was my "therapy" due to PTSD. i invested around 2600 hours in that car and did it all myself. now i'm a bit older and don't have as much energy as i had 15 years ago. i probably will end up "farming out" some small body work on my remaining cars and then doing much of the work again myself.