My daughter Victoria has decided to take on the challenge of getting my 1st car started and driving.
This was my Grandpa’s car when new, and after he passed away, my Grandma gave it to me right before I turned 16.
So far we have replaced the spark plugs, spark plug tube seals, distributor cap and rotor, and the spark plug wires. We also had to change the positive cable down to the starter as it had been chewed by rats over the years. We also just had to fix a few ignition wires, and plan on changing a few vacuum hoses including the vacuum advance line to the distributor.
Here’s some of the parts I need to order now:

Had to replace the wheel cylinders too, and now the master cylinder is not holding pressure.
I assumed we would need to replace it, but it was working fine up until we had to bleed the brakes and it gave out.
This is the one I am replacing it with:

And these Wheel Bearing Dust caps as well because the old ones are dented pretty bad and don’t stay on:

So we had a stuck intake valve after running this for a little. There was lots of tar-like gunk causing the valve to stick like glue. It ended up bending two of the pushrods. We took off the head and are cleaning everything up, and it looks like it will be ok, but we are replacing a few more things along the way…

So after getting it going, the valves gummed up again and the pushrods bent because of the stuck intake valves. I didn’t realize how bad the gas tank was so we just ordered this tank and sending unit:

Time to do the Fuel Line Mod as we are really heating up the stock metal fuel line and filter. I could see the fuel ‘boiling’ in the clear plastic filter…