Looking for advice. Want to build a Duster to run on a budget.

sad. that paint could've been cut and buffed and that car would've looked great wearing battle wounds.

instead now it looks like a typical flip sitting on a buy here pay here conman lot, waiting for some unsuspecting fool to get taken for a ride by a charlatan that claims he's doing the hobby a service.
And even better the longer it sat outside with water running in the holes and getting the debris wet and rusting away.
Probably should have left those quater top mouldings with the rusted out clips bowing in the air too. Water running down in those clip holes would have only added to it.
And of course I should have just buffed over the hole in the front of the hood and let that continue to draw moisture till the hood would need replaced.

But dummy me risked being called a con man and now I have this good looking car that willl last a long time because I took that chance. You know what's important, that's for sure.