Hi Tanker, welcome to the Fordbarn. The guys who post here can give you a lot of helpful info and encouragement to get that shoebox liquor running Ford back among the living. Can you post some pictures of your '49 here for us to take a look at? We always like to see lots of old Ford pictures
. One suggestion would be to put you location in your Avatar so folks can get a good idea of your approximate location. You may even find you have some local neighbors who are working on or maybe have finished a similar project. Ask a lot of questions and most of the folks here will be more than willing to jump right in and help. I have lots of pictures of moonshine runners taken at the Dawsonville Moonshine Festival that i can share with you....in fact you could plug that show name in the search function and get the post with pictures that i put up here. There were some '49 cars at that show that were built for runnin'. Good luck with your car!