Jealous! I wish I would have started with a bare shell. Lightweight Hotrod? Sounds like my kind of car

Sub'd.
One place to start is by asking yourself, what kind of additional bracing, stitch welding etc do I need/want/desire now while everything is accessible....but maybe none at all! I just simple seam welded the laterals up front and
added a strut bar from TRE.
This would be the extreme...
Quasi ST
This is just plain cool -->
Fraise ST built by TRE