Thoughts on this car for a project with my pops

Kendog, that is a pro for California cars. I lived in AZ for many years too and rust is not so bad. Off topic, they store a lot of planes and things in AZ just because it is dry and rust is low. Makes for a fun trip to the Air and Space museum.

Professor Fate, thanks for the thorough list of common problem areas. I'll be making a list from all the good insight on this thread to go through one by one when I see it. I am interested to see it and find out what things might have been done…what the pictures don't show. I didn't know about the vinyl tops, so that will be interesting to look at closer.

I kind of like that "these ain't Hemi cars" since it makes it a bit more special and surprising to people who don’t know (which I would have been one of a month ago! Haha)