The car can be salvaged & brought back to it's former glory. It will be an expensive undertaking at the least. I have a friend who acquired an M code Dart from a friends widow after he passed away. The widow knew that my friend was the one to restore the car. When he went to pick the car up, it had a cobbled up back & front half under it that was barely safe enough to get it on the trailer. The original 440 block was still there but was in very sad shape, I took 3 sleeves to get it viable again. My friend took on the restoration but told the widow that is was going to be a long time before the car was even close to ready & it was going to be expensive. I went over on the weekends that I could to give him a hand & watched the transformation. After just over 4 years & untold amounts of cash, the car was back together in almost the shame shape it was when the original owner took possession of it. While this was going on, I was told who the original owner was & I had known him before he passed away & his car was sold to the guy who butchered it up. I now have pictures I had of the original owner & the car, pictures of when it was trailered to my friends, & pictures of it now in the widows hands. She takes it out on nice weekends to charity events for cancer research & it draws quite a crowd.
