Advice on ‘74 Duster

yup, draw up a plan, a budget, another budget and just forget about the budget and get her done

half the fun of owning these old cars is knowing exactly what scar on your knuckle came from what part you replaced yourself

if at all possible, a lot of this could be done at the same time
(remove the radiator to have more room to replace the timing chain AND gear, then slap in a new radiator)

in order to get headers in, you need to undo the motormounts, so your basically cutting all your time in half
not having a distributor in there may be helpful for the headers too, so pull that out, do the headers, and then put the new distributor on

do you trust yourself to rebuild a carb, I think I got a 750 from my bronco (don't ask) sitting in the garage, but I may need to be gone through (there is reason I took it off)
it an eddie, but I got to check the number, you want it, just pay shipping