My best friend growing up, his first car was a 64 1/2 Mustang his dad got him so he could learn to work on cars. Body was in great shape, several parts needed replacing, and the entire breaking system. Only got in on just a little bit of that, as by then we had moved to Georgia and I was only visiting BR for a few weeks that summer, but we had some interesting times in that car before it was technically road worthy. I don't know why he didn't keep it longer. While lacking some amenities of modern vehicles, it had a lot of cool factor and was in excellent shape when they got done with it. But he had a boring Chevy pickup by the time we graduated.