dilemma !!!!

[Bonzo]

A matter of personal choice really.

I opted for. Strip the donor, box it all up & put it away.

At times, it was not the best of ideas.
As the chassis neared completion, I found myself constantly searching through boxes looking for some of the parts

If you are going to put the parts away, make sure you know where all of the parts are.
Itemise the boxes with a permanent marker

[doop]

i stripped everything off as well because i needed to get rid off the donor asap but as always i stripped it 3weeks a go and its still there on the drive. i got a 189ltr storage box from B&Q for £20 on offer instead of £30 managed to get gear box, brakes,steering colum, drive shafts in it and a few other things.

[deezee]

Half the stuff that needs stripping, needs cleaning. So I opted to get onto this straight away, rather than hold up assembly. I got into a habit of putting a part in an electrolysis bath each evening, and change the part the following evening. Then after a couple of weeks, everything had been stripped of rust and primed. Assembly hardly takes anytime at all when all the parts are good.