chance to pick up a 49 Plymouth

Most street rodded Mopars of that era are usually clipped with the front half of a Dakota or S10 frame, this gets you disk brakes, power steering, motor mounts, cheap rebuild parts for the front end, etc... all in one shot. There is really nothing wrong with the stock front end on these cars, parts are available for them, several companies make disk brakes kits for them. Putting a v8 in these cars isn't terribly difficult, the steering box and column kinda get in the way, the inner fenders need to be trimmed, and the firewall needs a dent in it to clear the passenger side valve cover. It's been done many times before and pretty well documented on the web, just poke around a little.