Here is my wife's 1971 Duster when she first got cira 1993. She actually trusted me enough after dating only 6 months or so. "See babe, there's a cool little project car I know of and it doesn't run, but you won't have your licence for 6 months anyways. I think you should buy it!"
Having my dad as a resource probably gave me a bit too much confidence in being able to handle any project. The only part bad about that was how many projects I took in without consulting my parents. My mom drew the line after I had about 9 cars/ motorcycles at their house.
Yeah, it doesn't run but you gotta see my vision. Tires came off right away and the 15x8 Cragar's that couldn't fit my 65 Chevelle fit great! L60 LARAMIE rocking out back. This is also where I learned about small lug Chrysler. Someone previously had bought axles out back for the big pattern, but left the front's stock. Notice no lugs on the front. This was just a Photo-op.
I'll have to dig some better pictures, but this gets you the idea. Car was quickly painted a more universally likeable color. Found a set of small lug Cragar SS wheels and also found a set of Cragar Mach 8 wheels with a more neutral offset so we could run 295/50 15 in the stock wheel wells.
To my wife's credit, she saw more in me than I did at the time. Hard to beleive that was 20 years ago! Pretty cool she wasn't a poser either. She helped swing wrenches and raced it at the track. This was a track rental day and I don't think I drove it once!