Haha I love the advice, I definitely want it, but the seller is asking a bit more than I'm good with so I need to wrap my head around that first. Anyway, I'm in my 30s, so I've never driven a car without power steering, except when my belt blew and I had to drive home without it in my 00s car...that sucked hard. The AC thing...right now I don't live in a 'hot' state, but I intend to move to one fairly soon, and if I do I get the feeling that I'll want to slowly gather up the needed parts and go through the arduous process of making that a thing. Pretty sure a few members here have done it and documented in threads their experience. This would be my first (and only) classic car purchase. I've been on this forum for I believe a couple years now just quietly gathering knowledge.