Duster Rebuild: Where to Start What Order?
Put pan in, get body work finished, then paint bay, interior, and trunk. Then paint underside. Install front and rear suspension. (tip- Sherwin Williams can make a perfect match in rattle can paint, even 2 stage). Do the re-wiring, , then engine (more rattle can touch up). Front seat, fire it, find problems, fix, then test drive; back for more adjustments.
Pull seat, then headliner and carpet. Then interior. Now exterior paint. (no more scratching the paint. Until more tuning needed, lol. Oh, and don't forget that all the window gaskets are shot- those after shooting jambs and all around windows- just use same paint as the painter will use.
Time consuming.