I agree tha $3500 may be too much for the one Matt found, but the guy may be willing to go down. He keeps it inside storage.

As far as rust goes - I think that you will find some rust on any 40year+ car. The trick is to find one the has minimal and can be repaired.

I would encourage you to keep looking. The nice thing about a car of that vintage is the simplicity of the design, with no complex electronics or accessories to go bad. In the long run, it will be less expensive to keep in working condition, vs a fully loaded car from the 70's or 80's, where everything has started to fail on the accessories side - like AC, window motors, electronics etc. Those things can make you poor.

A handy guy can deal with most things on a 60's fin. - with a good set of metric wrenches and some good advice from this forum.

soon...