Shawn,
This forum and its members are a wealth of information and help. If you decide to keep and rebuild the car use them!
You might want to ask George to move this post to one of the other forums if you decide to keep the car. You would get more interaction there.
As an aside, if your car is the one that was stored at Jupiter hitch off orange, I've seen that car and was actually quite depressed on how it was being stored, wide open to the weather without even glass. Hope the rust was addressed before the repaint.
Myself and a few other Pantera owners locally would be more than happy to offer advice and direction on a rebuild, heck mine started as just an a/c compressor change, it is now totally stripped to a shell!
Good luck on which ever path you choose.
Angelo
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