A good car to look for is a 1940's-1952 Chevy car or a 1949 or 1950 plymouth, these are gennerally all pretty cheap cars, some 1960's Impalas may be affordable also. There will probably be more work than you have done, you probably have never put new floor boards in a car. You may have worked on cars but, nothing like an old classic car, there toatlly diffrent than what you have worked on but, much easier to work on if restoring but if rodding it is a little harder. Why would you not want to drive it?