Ive been wanting an older car to tinker with in my spare time. I am attracted to their simplicity, which makes it easy to spend a few hours working on it in the evenings after work, which is hard to do with the vette, ive got a pile of parts to put on but most of them involve blowing the whole car apart.
My dad has been wanting something since i sold my 53 and 69 firebird, but hes one of those who will look forever but never buy, so im thinking of buying something and getting it running and giving it to him. He loves muscle cars but really anything old with a little rumble he can cruise in he'll love.
So Ive got a local 55 task force im currently looking at.
What i know/think from pictures and limited info (im going to inspect it sunday)
Pretty complete
Little rust, cab appears solid, bad cancer appears to be in the side of the bed.
Has title
My plans would be quick and dirty body work to get it presentable and one color, get it running in its original state so it can put aroud town and make home depot runs, then slowly updating things to eventually make it suitable for highway use and improve safety, Nd a basic sbc swap for that rumble, probably even do a simple tbi efi setup.
I have heard of people mounting an xj6 ifs on the front, but im having problems finding a good source of info for these things.
Just curious if you guys have any info on them on what to do what not to do, what to look out for, or GRM type modifications.
Im also open to other type of inexpensive old cars to check into. It has to be american, no fords, expect maybe a mustang but probably not, and older than 1970 or atleast before everything got ugly and huge bumpers around 75.
Im a good mechanic and my brother is a good fabricator but not a car guy, so i cant tell him weld this ifs in and expect him to get it set, i can tell him make these two pieces one or make this stronger.
