Here is my advice take it or leave it. Unless you are looking for a matching number car to restore buy the absolute best body you can afford. Before I bought my 66 I looked at hundreds or cars on line and waisted a lot of gas with an empty trailer behind my truck to look at absolute junk that looked great in pictures. I even waited a few plane tickets.
You need to ask yourself what you want in the long run ot of the car. Driver to drive as is or needs a little TLC or a car that will need a complete resto to make you happy with it. If the latter how much can you do yourself. Good shops get lots of money to restore a car right.
If you don't know about body work and what to look for you need to have someone that does know what they are doing to look at it. There is at lot more bad work out there than good work unfortunatly. I usually charge $200.00 to look at a car and write up a detailed report on it. I have saved people thousands that wanted to buy a car from out of state. You should be able to find someone in you area that does the same.
If you want a perfect body and very nice custom restored chassis I may have to put mine for sale in a few months but it won't be cheap. Trying to fund a home add on and after talking with contractors my 66 may have to go to be able to afford it.
