Alrighty, I'll give you some candy
. So the car looked okay on the outside... from a distance, all of that white around the body was bondo. The inner fenders were rusted to hell on all four wheels. It had a vynl top originally because there are giant gash marks where they slapped a solid top on, and the pin up job for the window brace pillars was almost falling through. That floor rust? Took a closer look underneath, it is the size of a volley ball, and there is some sort of old brown saggy bag hanging through it, the inside was extremely squishy in that area, probably goes all the way through to the ground at this point.
The engine sounded good, but, I slapped it into reverse and it took about 5 seconds or so to get to the gear, then I had to wiggle the shift stick to get it to sit, the same for drive. It accelerated like a dead cow, and the steering was beyond extremely loose, I was scared to take it to 55 on the back highway. Breaks were almost shot as well.
The lights all worked, even the little turn signals on the sides of the cowl, that wooden plank inside? It was actually a custom box going the length of the glove compartment, it housed a radio and cassette from the 80's in it that did not work... what a bang up job! It was drilled and screwed into the glove compartment's bottom.
The front passanger seet would fall sideways if it was pulled forward too much, since I am a bit on the shorter end this is a no-go.
Tons of rattles inside, every corner, every metal and plastic object, there were leaks from the window seals, though the trunk was very clean.
Struts and shocks looked...okay, they were flaking rust pretty bad though.
I did understand this would be a project car, but unfortunately I am looking for something safe and fun to drive that I can work on updating, tuning, and fixing in my off time or during the long winters here. I would not have paid more than $2000 for this car in it's state, and that would be high balling it.
This has been a great learning experience though, thank you all for your help and ideas! Maybe I'll find another duster around here in the future, for now, the well is dried up.