Stop in for a cup of coffee

You are going to need to find a classic car shop that specializes in vintage cars. No modern shop will have the skills to do it right from body through mechanical.

At least in CA, there are shops that specialize in that kind of work. Most of the rest of the country has very few. I’m just talking out loud, you already know all this...
And those shops are in big demand in CA, and they are not inexpensive. Several in Escondido. Two towns over...