Welcome to CHR, working on these things is what keeps us young [ Ill be 70 in one month],get to the point where you can drive and enjoy it as you go along working on it. sounds like my kind of car, I am in to the rare type rods. I drive mine all summer an when the weather gets cold here in Pa. it gets work done on it. Enjoy it Scruffy thats what its all about an good luck. Dick