You are the next generation to help continue this hobby. When I was 16 and my younger years. I bought worse than this car. Everything can be fixed and or replaced. Yes. At what cost? This is how I learned to do everything myself was buying projects or parts cars and restoring/building them from...
Welcome. They all have there own stories. It's good you were able to keep it all of these years. Just keep at it alittle at a time as money and time allows.
I run all Mopar Performance ignition conversion kits in all of my cars except for one which I have and MSD Grid system in my street/strip car with no issues.
We do run hundreds of MSD distributors, boxes and EFI kits on our engines every year. Yes, MSD along with every other aftermarket...
If I were to add cup holders I personally would add the cup holders through the woodgrain top plate, one in front of the shifter, and one behind the shifter before I went through the console lid. I wouldn't want to loose the storage space and inconvenience to have to remove both cups to get...
I have done this very thing on my car. However, it is not a four link car. I am still on leafs. This is how we installed mine. My upper shock bar serves 3 purposes. 1) from the rear horizontal hoop I have 2 trunk down bars that tie in from above. 2) it is the upper shock mount bar. 3) it also...
Nice score and welcome. I would get it running and driving making it safe to drive as is. Knowing myself as well as I do I couldn't leave it as a stock slant 6 for too long though. Stock and original to me is always boring.
I run 15"x8" Rallye's on the rear of my Challengers with a 4-1/2" back space and 295 rear tires with no modifications and all stock factory suspension. It is close but nothing rubs anywhere.
I couldn't care less if a car has a fender tag or broadcast sheet. I have never been a numbers dude anyway. I know the numbers, but just don't care enough to matter. So much of it has been forged anyway over the years.
There are more so called numbers matching cars today than there were back...