Just my opinion but I would put a later model flatty in it, lower it, and leave it!! TOO many complete cars getting cut up and stripped for parts. That's ok for the guys with the only originals left since they will be worth bookoo bucks soon. Why not start with a bare piece o s#*t body if you're going to do that, like the 34 5 window my brother and I pulled out of a creekbed to save. Most guys would have thrown it away.