Why thank you for your warm welcomes. I have plenty of testicles so I am going to decline the kind offer of trade for fender. And don't worry, there's plenty of rust. It spent 6 years in Pennsylvania. The wonder is there isn't *more* rust.
The car has been in our (wife's side) family for 4 generations is why we're going to the bother.
Wild&Crazy, do you live in Fresno? The internet is smaller than it looks.
The rebuild is planned to be mostly stock except we have found a propane tank that should fit in the trunk so we'll convert using a Technocarb kit. Unless anyone has better advice. I like the technocarb as it has a rudimentary mapper that should be a bit better than the mechanical system.
Anyway, we need some rear end sheet metal so if anyone knows of a clip, we'll swoop on it.