Delivery / Pickup
A phone call to Fran Hall at RCR caught me a little off-guard. I was calling to see what the status of my build was – He said come pick it up next Friday. How’s that for notice?
I scrambled to change my calendar around. It would be tight, next Thurs/Friday is the week before Christmas, the weather didn’t look good, but after a years anticipation, you just have to do it. A nine hour drive with a trailer to Detroit, an overnite in a local motel and waking up to about and inch of snow on the ground. 
And now, a 9 hour trip back home and the first four hours will be in snow with a loaded trailer. Yup, getting off to a good start 🙄
So, now where to start?
I had been collecting as much info as possible on the GT40 Build. This is a little different beast than the cobra community. It’s a much smaller market, documentation is almost non-existent. RCR has a build website, but it’s dated at best. There are other build threads, but a lot is taken for granted. The body came untrimmed – and no details on what to cut and where.
The GT40s.com site is the best resource, however as you scroll around it, you’ll find many of the photos missing and the search engine not the best in the world. Many guys used Photobucket as a storage space and years ago, when Photobucket decided to monetize their customer base, all the links broke. Or at least most of them. The site is based on Xenforo, the go-to forum software but one of its weakness’ is the search engine. It is not user friendly. But so much for grumbling – it’s time to get building.
Documentation
The first step, called for by most all kit suppliers is to disassemble what was shipped, begin an inventory of components and do some basic setups. I found some of the details were overlooked in what documents I had. If you build these day in-day out, you do certain items, take certain things for granted and these often will be helpful to the builder/customer. I hope to add to the RCR journey with the little tidbits I found as I dig thru this.
