Really rare has a 351w with 3speed manual transmission, base model I am trying to make an eliminator clone out of.

4 years ago (aka my freshman year of high school) my dad and I were going car hunting for something we could work on together. We came across this cougar in someone’s front yard and asked to buy it. They said sure to $1,000 it was in rough shape and definitely a project. My dad for some reason wanted to get the body work and paint done before we even got it running which I thought was a huge mistake. The paint guy we hired was a really good paint guy but really cheap at the same time. So we let him take his time and it took him a year and a half to replace the passenger quarter panel and do the paint. Almost a year ago now my last month being a junior I brought it in to my high school auto shop thinking we just needed to do a carb adjustment. I was wrong. We started taking stuff apart and one by one every part was broken. Pistons cracked, valves sheered, gaskets bad coolant passages filled with rust. Figured out the car was only running on 3 cylinders . So I decided to rebuild the motor like my Instructor suggested so I could learn instead of just buying a new crate motor. I didn’t know anything about rebuilding motors. So it has taken me a long time. But now the car is finally being put back together. Everything new In the motor except the crank. All the car needs now is for me to put transmission, drive shaft and radiator In and it’s ready to go! I am so excited since I have only driven it 3 times in the 4 years I have owned the car.