Start of a Dart

Agreed.



Also agreed. What you're missing, is since I don't know what shape these are in I could easily put the money in and go a different direction wasting the funds. If they work fine there's no reason to rebuild them. The Dart's not going anywhere if it needs more help later it will get it.

The GWG needed a timing chain I knew, $100. When I get into it it's so crusty there's no way I'm going to put it back together without a machine shop check, hot tank, new bearings and rings, etc. Probably shave the head a little and get the cam reground. Oh, and new exhaust since the old one had two cats and 30+ feet of pipe. I've been without a truck for almost a year and need to get this one wrapped up so I can sell the TCD.
I can almost one hundred percent guarantee that if that transmission has been sitting for 25 years like you said it is going to leak soon after its put into regular use along with the engine...
The two other automatics I've rebuilt, a Ford and a Chevy both set for a long time and both had dried up seales. Of course they worked initially to move the car but under any serious use they failed... A simple compression check should tell you the health of the piston rings and valves..
In the end though your time and your money..