Thanks, I got a few more experienced friends willing to help me, but for the most part they are hands off because I want to put in the work myself. I am working on seeing about a repaint, I can strip the body repair the damage and rust (which I saw is a problem for these cars) and paint the car. Problem is I want to do everything myself, but I have a very small garage that my grandfather used to do this kind of work in but since then my grandmother has fenced in the backyard and loaded the garage for stuff, I would say I could paint this in the driveway but the neighbor has a Great Oak in her front yard who's branches extend over my driveway.

This is also Florida so the average temp here is about 90 with around 80% humidity, high pollen counts in summer with intermittent wind and can rain at a moment's notice.

So I feel like I need to take it to a shop to get the paint work done unless anyone else has other solutions?