This entire project started as we were spending the day with the family hunting the perfect Christmas tree.

We decided to get our tree after a good snow storm had passed, leaving piles of fresh snow in the woods.

We went to a spot we have been to many times, except this time I was trailing in two feet of fresh powder.

The snow was so heavy it toppled trees onto the road, some bouncing back to life after I drove over them knocking off the snow.

We were just about to our favorite spot when a branch jumped up and whacked my front driver door putting a crease down the entire side.

I pondered for a couple of weeks what I was going to do to fix my truck before deciding I was going repair it myself, MY way.