Help starting a new Swinger porject please!

Rules of thumb for actually getting to drive the car in your lifetime:

1.The more complete the car, the better. You don’t want to get overwhelmed.

2.If you don’t want or can’t do bodywork find the best body you can live with.
That is the most time consuming part of the “project.”

3. Don’t go for bling bling. Pick a year/model that spare parts are easiest to find.
(Example it is easer to find spare instrument clusters for later A bodies than earlier. I have a box full of them a spare gages for the 72-76 cars. The square ones.).

4. Remember, small block cars already have the v-8 K frame and you don’t need non-mopar engine mounts but there is no reason not to convert a slant car. They might be cheaper and they deserve saving.

5. Front disk are a big plus. (see 3 above)

All this particularly applies if you would like to drive the car to work, have fun everyday and not wait for car shows to take your baby out and fellowship with the “lawn chair crowd”.
(Think "Flying Green Brick)