Wow! I'm speechless, this is by far the coolest thing I've seen/read in a long time. Congrats on the feature of stangtv. It was really well written, and all the things being said here are well deserved. Talk about dedicating yourself.
You'd be better buying a crashed GT500 as a starting point from what I've seen. Doing it piece by piece you'd spend more than just buying a fully working GT500.