BUILD-OFF CHALLENGE: Barn find with 50k original miles Options

[Matty900]

Looking forward to working on this project so I can drive my own car to WCR 2016

[cwpeden]

You have 2 now? Whats wrong with the wide body?

[Matty900]

You have 2 now? Whats wrong with the wide body?

It was a car my brother had for a long time. He bought it wrecked and had some help from friends getting it back to working condition. He decided he wanted to sell it because he has a few too many project cars and the wife likes the "unmolested" cars so this one was ugly.
My son was looking for a really cool senior project and wanted to work on the car for his project.
He put in a few hundred hours and we got him in to a friend's paint booth. We cleaned up the interior, put in new seals, carpet, door cards and most importantly a cool radio. He took it to school and it was the coolest senior project.
After working on the car with my son I had to buy right? So I have one payment to my brother left and I was going to start going through everything that was not done, like suspension, body stiffening, and figuring out what motor to actually put in it.
The project inspired my son to go to college for automotive restoration. Now it’s "Dad, that paint job we did was crap. We need to repaint it and it needs to midnight blue" now I don't know about that color, but I will need paint in side of everything anyway, so I guess I can do it all "right" and actually start with fixing things in the correct order this time instead of just skipping to the cosmetic stuff.
I didn't think I would be able to get it all done before WCR, So on a whim, I checked craigslist and Bingo, I found the 72.
Sorry for the long answer.