@Frank Sanoica Okay, Frank, I roger that. Good on you for your expertise and help. Wish good luck to your nephew. Semper Fi.
In my opinion, cars even as far back as the 1950's are TOO RECENT in age to restore. If you want to restore something, the "golden age" of automotive design of the 1930's is the way to go, such as this 1937 Cord or this 1931 Duesenberg. To buy vintage car like these, even a "basket case", you have to be really wealthy, and to restore it, you have to be wealthier still! Otherwise, forget the hobby! Hal
@Hal Pollner The Cord would do it for me! First mass-produced front-wheel drive, used Rzeppa Constant Velocity Joints, a design surviving even today! "Alfred Hans Rzeppa (January 23, 1885, Gliwice – January 1965) was an American engineer of Silesian, Poland descent working at Ford Motor Company who invented a version of constant-velocity joint in 1926. He proposed an improved design in 1936. Rzeppa's design uses six balls and an inner and outer race to provide almost constant velocity torque transfer regardless of the joint angle. The joint works in a similar manner to a bevel gear with the balls bisecting the joint angle and functioning as the "teeth" to transmit torque. The description of the two versions of the Rzeppa joint can be found in the US patents 2,010,899 and 2,046,584."
@Frank, legendary silent film cowboy star Tom Mix was killed when his speeding 1937 Cord Phaeton ran into an Arizona gully from a washed-out bridge in 1940. Hal