Yep great way to gain the skills, my first car was a 70's chevy, then i moved to 60s, then 50s. pretty soon I might be forced to ride horses around.
Nice coupe! My first car was '67 I got in '79 and I welded the **** out of that car, bondoed, swapped trans, wired, painted yada yada ..... Learned a lot by doing it. I have a POS '67 again. I'm doing a Terlingua clone(ish) with. My HAMB friendly car is an '64 Merc Park Lane. The mother from another brother as I call her.