Originally Posted by dropnosky

The plan is to do no more to the car than make it usable again, and fix what's obviously broken. There is some rust, but nothing like my old brown 240.

The PO has had the most unbelievably bad luck with this car and crooked auto shops over the last year, totalling thousands in repairs, think she's already spent that much on what turned out to be a bad plug on the back of the alternator she fixed herself, so she might be done for good. She has had numerous people flat out lie, gouge, and mis-diagnose trying the milk the absolute most amount of cash in the sake of "safety".

It does not pay to be a woman with an old car who it dependant on auto shops, even a couple of places I suggested to her where I had a good experience turned out to either be relentlessly sexist, or bill padders in her case