Here's another photo, inside facing rear seat area.  Wheelhouses, floors and inside quarters very solid, no rust out beyond pans.  Believe that the rubber cowl drain tubes were long ago rotted out allowing water to leak in and lie on floor pans.

Rodney,
Managed 1 pic, can't get my camera below 124KB, max for the site is 128KB.  Still fooling with cropping, might be able to put up more.
Thanks,
Len

This is a great thread.  I've been following along and enjoying every bit of it, including the Y block comments.  I guess if you stack your intake ports it may be nearly as unique as bolting your valve covers to your intake manifold.  Dean, awesome '56, it caused me to dig back into my garage until I touched a fin.  The neat thing about '57's is that FE's just fall into place..... 

Thanks for the welcome.  The picture is a bit dated, I've since torched out the home made 1 ton front coils (changing 2 broken ball joints along the way) and replaced them with new non-A/C standard 64 FE front coils.  The car was a black on red 352 auto built in Atlanta, has been converted to 390 4 speed.  The interior is brand new, I think the previous owner just got discouraged chasing some of the gremlins that had to be hunted down and removed.

When I settle in I'm gong to decide which direction to take my rebuild, and the musings of the learned are appreciated.  I'm thinking of locating another 390 block and building it to drop in over the winter.  The stroker article in Car-Craft looks awfully attractive, but I'm also considering a 428 crank with an .060" overbore and the aluminum performer RPM heads as an option.  I intend to build a killer sounding street fighter, but I'm not going pinks either.  I like the pieces I've got (intake, carb, ignition, exhaust), think they are right for the FE and believe the .060" (safe?) overbore with the performer RPM heads and right cam will get me where I want to be, allowing me to re-use what I already have.  Thoughts on these possibilities are appreciated.