Thoughts on this car for a project with my pops

ocdart, thanks for the welcome! I am also in SoCal, and my dad is in NorCal, so got it all covered haha.

I think I lean more towards a 'restomod' build, but that said I don't want to mess up something special. It seems like this one may not be too rare, but I definitely need to check on that vinyl question.