The timetable for getting it up and running - are you lookin at a few months from now, or few weeks from now ? ? ....Anyway, you must be very excited - and it must be a real pleasure to go to sleep thinking of that car 'reborn'.
Question : as far as making an '85 car into a '74 car - is the most important thing to weld in a new TUB in order to receive the new and different registration that way ?

That kinda got glossed over a bit.
And you are moving to Europe in a few months ?
That car of yours deserves to be shipped directly to Gmund Austria and share in the history there.
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'82 Targa - sold