Buy New or Buy a Parts Car

From the pics, the outer body isn't all that bad. He said the rear frame rails are shot, and a front wheel bearing went out. It was a daily driver. Fenders look okay from what I can see, but I'll get a closer look this weekend.
Unless its a complete rust bucket I wouldnt part it. It sounds like the parts your looking for are run of the mill standard stuff that many of us have on the shelf. We have to preserve the restorable cars, not many of them left. Yesterdays parts cars are todays restorations. I know I parted plenty of cars that were not fixable at the time but are now because the restoration market is making so many parts.