Not sure what I'm getting into...

welcome........ yes time spent studying the whole ball of yarn is wise for sure.

if you want to keep the boys interested, a model they like is wise. all these cars have their week points. kinda like us people, non perfect.

A bodies have many good points you will find, some models/years are less expensive, some have more after market parts available, some have virtually NO repop sheet metal or if so, pretty poor. lots of devil in the details.