Advice needed: Budget rebuild

Check out this link....

http://www.gojackets.com/cars/

You can tell by the name of the pic which are the 69 pics. The 69 pics are what the guy I bought it from gave me. But, outside of gathering parts (69 front end parts in particular since it has a 67 front end on it) and work on the brakes, nothing has changed. I did put a new carb on the motor and it now runs, but the number 2 cylinder is not hitting at all. The old carb was about as big a mess as I've seen (I opened it up and half of it literally fell apart on my workbench ). I haven't pulled the valve covers on it yet to check it out that miss but will do so once I get the brakes fixed.

I was thinking about pulling the motor, getting only the engine bay painted (Curious Yellow perhaps?) and dropping the rebuilt motor back in, then driving it for a bit as I work on the rest of it.