opinions welcome on build.

Well you hit it on the head.
I'm a semi-retired,sexually frustrated and becoming overweight because of it, 66 year old, living the teenager's dream, but now with a car not on E70-14 Polyglass tires. That 1970 Swinger340 is the car I learned to drive in; I think there would not be many 16 year olds today who could survive more than a few hours in one of those before wrecking it. The way I remember it, 49 years ago, it was like driving on ball-bearings.