In case you hadn't noticed it IS an ealier car. Maybe you meant that if it were a later car it wouln't have as much damage. As for the car- It has a lot of rust spots in the paint and such. I'm just going to tranfer the parts to a 1600 shell I have, then I'll have a Really nice car =) fix the front clip and you'll have a great car. ..thank god for the big ugly bumpers. If it was an earlier model, the damage would have been alot worst.