Howdy from Southern MO !

I have two 1967 Galaxie 500 Fastbacks. Both have clear titles in my name. Both are red with white tops and have burgundy red bench seat interiors. They both have cracked windshields, cracked & faded dash covers, and interior issues . But they have straight & solid frames, good glass & trim, and both cars are good candidates for restoration.

The first one I purchased for $1200 last fall. It's a base model 289 car with a Cruise-O-Matic, no power steering or A/C. It has a bad trunk pan but pretty good floors. The right front fender is a little crunched with a broken headlight bezel and the hood is slightly tweaked, but the rest of the body is straight with only surface rust on top.
The 18-year-old kid I bought it from bolted a bunch of go-fast goodies on a tired 70's 351 truck engine and stuck it in there, but never finished installing it properly. I have the original 289 engine but it's locked up and was sitting outside for awhile. 
This car was originally purchased new at a now-defunct Ford dealership here in my home town. I tracked down the original owner, a little old lady who sold it to the kid for $1000. She was the one who dinged the front fender back in the late 70s, and around 1980 she unknowingly ran it low on oil until the engine seized up. It then sat for 35 years until the kid bought it last year.
 
The second car I acquired 2 months ago for $2200. This one runs & drives and is 100% complete & original down to the paint. It's also a 289 car but with factory power steering and A/C. It even has it's original steel wheels and all 4 dog-dish style hubcaps. Unfortunately the floor and trunk pans are gone and it has a couple small rust spots around the rear window and front edge of the hood. The paint still polishes out nice though, and except for the bad dash cover and one torn corner on the driver's side seat, the interior isn't too bad. The engine runs good and the tranny shifts properly, but the car rides like a boat... which isn't surprising considering the 50-year-old coil springs.

Since both cars have clear titles, I want to do frame-off restorations on both. I know, I could use one for a parts car, but all I really need to restore both are one fender & headlight bezel, 2 windshields, 2 trunk pans and one set of floor pans.
The first car will be a resto-rod and the second all original. Once I replace the windshield and check the brakes, I'll throw some temporary floor pans in the 2nd running car and drive it while I finish the 1st resto-rod one. Then I can work on the all-original car and once completed, sell it to recoup the costs of restoring both cars. That's the plan, anyway.

I haven't taken pics yet and I need to start an account on an image hosting site, but once that's done I will post pics of both cars and try to keep ya'll updated on progress. In the meantime I hope to benefit from the knowledge here and hopefully share what little I have. Glad to be here!