How old is your project?

22+ years.

I bought the car as a roller in 1989. It was complete, but the 318 under the hood was sitting there not bolted down and was from the mid 70's. Car had not been on the road since 1982 at that point.

I had it running in about a month with a 383 in it. Drove it that way for a while. The 383 expired, and I swapped in a stock truck 413 so I could drive it when I needed to. In Summer 1993 I moved and left it in stored at my folks house when I transferred into UT Austin and got married. The following summer I returned and put together a stock 440 for the car and drove it to Austin. Drove it weekly until 1996. The front suspension needed to be gone through in a bad way and I stored it at a friend's house until we bought our house in 1998. By 1999 I was driving it again about once a week. The camshaft broke and destroyed the engine so I built a much nicer 440. From 1999 to 2008 I drove it at least once a month including the move from Austin to Dallas in 2006. I started having electrical problems and fuel pump problems with the car in 2008 and my youngest was born in August of that year. I have not driven the car since.

At this point I think it is going to get new paint, new electrical, etc. The past three years I have been steadily collecting parts and getting things ready. The other option is to do the electrical and a few other things I want and drive it for a while before I make the committment to take the car apart for paint.