Ok, I think I can help you, the car could very well have only 58,000 on it, the reason I say that is because you have to figure that the cars wearn't driven very far cause towns were indipendent and, most people worked on farms or owned and/or operated stores in there town. Now you probably don't even need to know this cause you probabbly would go for a new raido cause the old one is an AM but, they are 6 volt and would need replaced. Painless makes the conversion kits ( other suppliers also ), now I have heard on this site somewhere where you could make the car start on 12 volt but run on 6 volt, I do not know how to make that work but, it would make your life easier. Personally, I would rod the engine in there cause, there tough engines that are easy to work on. A nice say, 4-71 blower would work good. Oh, the 216 that the car has to have ( cause it's manual trans ) makes 92 HP @ 3,400 RPM. Firing order is 153624. Mine's looking good for thursday to pick it up, but I won't have much work to do on it cause the guy arleady fixed all the floor pans including trunk, replaced master cylender and replaced all brakes and lines, put all new ignitions systems in it ( points@condensor, plugs and wires ). All it really needs is a fuel pump diaphram and rechromed bumpers and also a new paint job.