Sounds like you have a project that could be a big one, depending on your goals.

What are your goals for this car, Bob?

What is your budget, roughly speaking? If you want to get it going for a grand or so, the advice will be very different than if you want to put it as close to original as possible and have $20-$30K to work with...

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