Nice looking car. Hopefully you won't find any surprises when you get the paint stripped off. I bet the front seat will clean up nicely with a little elbow grease. I use Coleman camp stove fuel and a clean white towel, it's pretty similar to dry cleaning fluid and doesn't leave any smell. Judging by the overall condition of the upholstery I wouldn't be surprised if there's only 64k miles on the car - the cloth on the driver's side especially is usually pretty worn. No cracks in the steering wheel either, so that's good.
In the engine compartment photo, notice that little fuel filter-shaped thing at the rear of the passenger side cylinder head, just below the heater box, with a U-shaped rubber hose on the end? That's the vent line for the slim jim transmission. I see it has single speed wipers, which are pretty uncommon.
By the way, the caps and trim rings on the 8 lugs the wrong year (they're from a 1963 or 1964 car) but they still look good.
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