Hello from Canada

Hi, I have been lurking here for a while and its time I started getting to working on my cars. Maybe posting here will help me get on with it. My wife and I were looking for a project after my son was born. She wants to learn to paint cars and I need to get better at welding so we bought this car.
  

     



Suffice to say our son was a lot more work than we thought but this year should have more free time to work on the crabs. We went for a road trip through the Rockies last autumn to get another crab that looking in amazing condition, unfortunately the pics were several years old and it had been smashed into a few times, had some sort of animal living in it and had an unknown amount of electrical upgrades. We got it anyhow for the parts if need be. 

    



I've never really done any project like this before so a lot of my stalling on these has been not knowing where to start or go. The plan so far is to get them running with the minimum amount of major work then move onto cosmetics later. The white one will be the main focus for now as it at least has fire without smoke. The electrical "upgrades" to the blue one mean the starter starts smoking when I put a battery in.
Thanks
Salcomine