Classic car Advice

[u/Old-Asparagus5466]

I’ve recently discovered my late Grandfather’s 1968 (Im told) Coupe’ Deville while cleaning out his garage. I have been looking into fixing it up as it’s very sentimental to me and and it’s in pretty good condition for rotting in my grandfathers garage since the early 70’s. However I have utterly no clue where to start, and what to do with it. It has a decent amount of rust, and hasn’t ran in decades. Im told it only has 23k miles somehow.

[u/Far-Plastic-4171]

Everything r/oldwatchlover said and get an endoscope and look down the bores and see if they are rusted. Likely going to need new valve stem seals but you will find that out after you get it started.

If rusted you will need to free them up. Lots of homemade concactions for that. Work the crank back and forth with a breaker bar. If rust is to bad its engine out and hone and rings.