New guy

As mentioned earlier, don't take it completely apart unless you have a lot of time & patience. We have seen multiple cars here stripped to nothing & then all of a sudden, life gets in the way & the car is shoved to the bottom of the priority list. Once it sits awhile, all of a sudden, interest is lost & the car is parted out or sold for parts because the interest waned. It's just a thought for you, plenty of the folks here have done the driving/rebuild trick with great success.