Thanks for the motivation. The car is all back together. Hood, fenders, nose, head lights, etc. By being in pieces I meant all trim, door handles, locks, emblems, mirrors, etc were removed for body work. I even took out the old pitted windshield. Both doors have been sanded down to check for rust as well as the rear quarters and deck lid. I have driven it down the street and back earlier this summer to see how the engine runs. It's fast and mean. Lays down some nice posi rubber. Although some people down the street called the cops after they heard that and saw some "kids" (my buddy was with me) driving an old car with no windshield or tail lights drinking and doing burnouts It's a dead end road and there are no houses way at the end of the street. We may have had a few beers. I'm going to keep looking. It's just a bummer I can't drive the thing. I am a do it yourselfer. Just finished putting on a 30 x 12 deck addition off the back porch basically by myself without ever doing any carpentry like that before. Took me a month. But I don't know if buying a welder, big air compressor all the tools and supplies, materials, etc would be worth it if I'm only going to do this once. Plus there is some body damage that I mentioned on the lower cowl area that would need to be pulled and fixed. I didn't discover this until I removed the fender. This is causing the gap between door and fender to be way off because the mounting points for the lower fender are toast. That I don't think I could fix myself. I've thought about giving it to the local high school vo tech, but visions of kids messing around and over revving and destroying my engine have me a little wary about that. Hmmmm.