1966 Toronado ??

[erane]

I’m new here but found this place to be full of great people and tips. Hope you guys can settle this. My son and I picked up a 66 Toronado and he wants to make it a derby racer not the main event type car. But I have had much push back not to “destroy the car” and fix it up instead. Clean car runs and drives 425 rocket. Was picked up for a song and has lived it’s life in eastern Washington very dry but has some cancer in lower rear quarters. I’ve built several cars ranging from old skylarks to 70s Camaros and maybe even a t-bird or two so I’m not totally green. What would you guys do? Also would be his first car. Thanks for any and all reply’s.

[md2469]

If you’re referring to bump to pass it would be a cool car unlike most of the other field that’s Monte Carlo, Malibu's etc, but if I’m not mistaken those are front wheel drive and if any parts break it’ll be hard to find parts. If it’s nice enough to fix up sell it make a little money and get something more common that would be easier to source parts for. We’re still lucky in wa there’s plenty of cars to be found! Hell I have a 79 t bird I’ll sell ya.

[Underbuilt]

This would be a front wheel drive car. The strength of the car is there, but like md2469 said, getting parts and making it function would be a challenge.