Your first DIY act should be to get another assessment of the car. This one looks a little fishy. Secondly get the service CD on Ebay. Also get the Haynes manual (303-237-0911) which doesn't cover the V8 engine but does cover the rest of the car very nicely and also rates each job by degree of difficultly. With those two sources and this forum you'll be amazed at how much you can do. It is very unlikely the car actually needs all that work anytime soon.