Like Father, Like Son: The Story of my 1970 Dodge Dart

Over the past few months, I've been reading the forum (a lot) and selling parts to build up a nest egg to begin working on the car. I got the service manual and went through it several times, and with a fancy PDF editor I was even able to chop out all the Challenger content to shorten it up a bit. That thing is a beast. I also got some steel and rearranged several shelves in the tiny garage, so I can build a little fab table and mount a vice and grinder to it. Spent about $500 at a welding supply company and I am now fully equipped to start messing things up with the MIG...

The path I'm choosing is based on my situation (not made of money), knowledge (fast learner, but currently beginner / can change brakes, etc. but nothing major), and the advice I've seen given to countless others on this forum. The advice that resonated with me was to get the car on the road (safely), as quickly as possible, then to take it one small project at a time from there. No surprise, despite the thousands of posts asking for advice, here I am asking for more. I'd like to do all of the above all while fitting my vision for the car, so if something contradicts what would be the absolute cheapest or fastest to roadworthiness, it is because I also need it to meet my plan for the build. I have no goal for when it will actually be done, only that I can do it as fast as I can raise funds and do the work without having to take 5 steps back each time I cut into it.

Having said ALL that, this car needs everything touched / brought back to life in some way. Trunk is rotten. Rear frame rails, floor pans in front and back (transition pan is about all that's good), rust holes in inner fenders right by the cowl support, fenders all along where they connect to inner fender and lower behind the wheels, rockers, etc. Only a dash and steering wheel for an interior. Primer has runs in it in spots that look like there's an inch of body filler on it. I don't know where to start and it's overwhelmed me. Every time I get on here, I can't focus because there's just so much to do to the car and so much to look at on here. I need to build the work table and sort through the rest of the tools that are left over from all the other stuff that was left behind, then, I took apart my engine stand and hoist and put it in the car. There's also miscellaneous tools and hardware scattered throughout the floor pans from what my dad was working on right before he passed. Once all that has a new home, I planned to tear down the suspension and rear end so it's just the car on jack stands. I guess getting it to be a "blank canvass".

Once I've gotten that far, I'm lost. I'll see what I can do this weekend and follow up with less gibberish of a post. Hopefully a bullet list of my build plan, current inventory, and pictures of the known trouble areas of the car.

I went and became a Gold Member (yeah babay!) because I already felt guilty for stealing so much knowledge from all of you. I couldn't appreciate this place more!

TLDR: Don't know where to start, haven't made progress, stay tuned.