Well,it's been months since I originally posted and quite a turn of events around this car but...as of tonight it's mine. If you read my original post I was close to getting the owner to consider selling. He died a week and a half after I posted here. Needless to say it's taken months of gentle contact with his widow (that I didn't know) but tonight she said I could buy it...whoo whoo!!!... I think. Car is pretty rough and theres no keys so i couldn't get to the numbers but she rattled off the vin to me and there is an R in the middle of the number. My worst fear was that the oil pan rusted through but I went and looked at it today and it really wasn't as bad as I thought it would. I was mistaken though as it does not have hoodlocks. I have a pic but don't know how to upload here. If someone wants I can email them a pic and they can post it. I'm pretty excited.