Rough 34 Ford 4 door project.

[60Buick]

I need a little advice here on my new acquisition. Its a 34 Ford 4 door sedan.

I have been walking past this car for 15 years waiting on the 34 4 door that was put in a basement the day it left the factory so I could find it and buy it cheap. I don't think it exist anymore. Original ones don't come up too often and when they do the timing is off or the money is not there. I'm not getting younger and these cars are getting harder to find. Had I of bought this car 15 years ago I'd be driving it and not just getting started.

The skill set to put this car together exist. The car is not butchered at all it is just pretty incomplete. The gentleman I got is from is a great metal guy and we are going to get started on this shell this spring. The question is direction. I want to build it as original as practical. He builds them all as hot rods. So he is nudging me in the hot rod direction. Its very easy to open a catalog and order a front suspension and drop in a 350. That's just not my taste. Can you bring something so incomplete back to something that resembles Henry Fords car? Is it going to be so cost prohibitive it's not practical? Is a more street rodded version better for a car this incomplete? He's a hot rodder, I'm a purist. This car is much older than the cars I typically restore so I'm a little in the dark.

I located the original front crossmember and an original radiator. I would still need the front and rear suspension, seats and motor/trans. With all the street rodded 34's you would think the stuff would be plentiful.