(With a smile on my face reading your post)..... ain't it great? There is no better feeling than that first drive. The sense of accomplishment, the power, the pride.... the power, the stares... the power! It's going on four years now and I still get excited before each drive.
A note of caution - for the first couple hundred miles check all nuts-n-bolts. Header bolts are notorious for loosing up..... after a few hundred miles I almost lost a door (a shoulder bolt dropped out of the hinge).
Congratulations Ric - enjoy!
Phil
427 Roadster, #4279436
FE Specialties FE
3:31 and Toploader (wide ratio)
Roseville (N.Cal)