How far is to far gone?

Yes i am attached i work all summer to buy that car in highschool. And then i got rear ended in it. Then i lost interest in it because i didn't know how to fix it and didn't have the money to. Now i have the knowledge to do some of this stuff myself. Like putting in most of the body panels. When i got the car it had a create motor i had the transmisson rebuilt and i have a few spare parts for it. I just hate to let it go if it can be fixed. Any way i'm going to have a muscle car i just don't know which one or what kind.