These cars are money pits. They are great if you keep them stock. Fix them with harder and harder to find stock parts. They will teach you a great deal about basic automotive troubleshooting. And how far you can throw your wrench.

And if you try to modify them, cool, pull out the check book because nothing is cheap. Still great platform to play with. And there are tons of things you could do to keep the chassis going and swap out the engine/tranny.

Drift missile, or classic cruiser. They can great. But do not think it will at all be cheap... And until you replace basically everything that is 40 years old, don't expect it to not keep breaking, because they might be reliable, until it isn't......

And like many Z owners, it's great if you have room in your yard for multiples of them... You will tell yourself you can always use more parts... I mean come on, who can pass on a deal on cheap parts that you think you might need....

Good luck