Hello everyone and thank you for all the encouraging messages. l have been catching up with the posts on my dad's phone but now I can post my own progress.
Welcome Ashley,
It's funny how it is with children sometimes - a couple of weeks after our oldest daughter Jennifer was born in 1989, I bought the Peugeot 404C that is now nearing the final stages of restoration.
So that car, rusted and looking unloved, sat around in our garage for nearly 30 years. I had no idea that it held meaning for Jennifer until about 10 years ago: despairing that I'd never get the restoration done (or even started!), I said at the dinner table that maybe I should sell the car and all the new parts I had for it.
Jenn who was in her early 20s at the time said "NO!! That car has been around ever since I have and I remember it over all these years! You are not going to sell it!".
She's the most car oriented of our three kids (one son and another daughter) and when my time on the earth is done, she will inherit it. But of course she will drive it before then, maybe later this year, when the work is finally done.
Here she is about a year ago checking out the rear seat after it was installed....
Anyway enjoy the work on the car with your Dad, it will be frustrating sometimes but worth it in the end and the memories will be priceless decades from now.