Your work is awesome! Keep at it. I spent over 13 years building my 40 Resto-mod but I too left it sitting for a while now and then. Never let the stresses of building it get in the way of the hobby aspect. Here is a pic of mine (not HAMB friendly, maybe not Ford Barn friendly) but I had a ball doing it
It's great to see others spending time making these classics live again.
BTW, your hood latch plate and the mating part on the upper grille support are from a 41 six cylinder truck. If your frame was from that same truck, it had a different front crossmember. Just stuff I have happened upon over the years.