Sounds real cool to me Joe. I've had fleeting thoughts about the same kind of car from time to time, although I envision it in a real clean (probably straight toner) yellow. Some sort of 5 spoke, 17" wheel, no body mods except a little trim removal (and they don't have much to start with).

Weeg will hopefully pipe in, he's the Stude man. But I see disc brake conversions listed on ebay pretty regularly for these. You might check that out. You might also double check the tailgate, they were pretty prone to rusting from the inside out, and are a bit bigger of a job to repair.