If I may, allow me to advocate keeping it as stock as practical.Plan is to get it running and driving. Upgrade brakes, get seats and seat belts to some decent standard of safety and go from there.
Dreaming, mechanically injected turbo diesel pared with a 5 speed, soa, 35s, nice restomod!
I have 2 boys who will drive this as there around town as there first.
My 1F motor was really, really stuck, so I dropped a friend's 2F in it.
Does it still have column shift, or has it been moved to the floor?