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Pervious owner said he ran non detergent 30w. I just changed the oil and filter.seems to be burning quite a bit of oil maybe 1.5 quarts of oil in the pan plus what was in the oil canister. While changing the oil I did discover I have a leaf on drivers side that's corroded and broke,and had a clogged fuel filter Unfortunately think it's going to need pulled in order to fix the smoking problem

Seems to only happen in town after about 10 mins of start and stop traffic. Coming from a stop it doesn't want to up shift have to let it coast almost to a stop to have it shift. Then once and awhile come to a stop and won't downshift. Transmission clunks when shifting not sure if that's normal or not for these cars.

I probably have 4 hours of total run time on the motor since I bought it. I will try checking compression and change the oil next week and see if that helps.

When I changed the the shocks I got a good look underneath. luckily the car is really good shape must have been garaged for most of its life, has some small rust on the roof but nothing major.

I picked up this 52 Windsor deluxe about 8 months ago. cars mostly complete but unfortunately was blinded by the pure awesomeness of the car that I overlooked some glaring issues Car smokes terrible to the point its embarrassing, transmission doesn't want to shift after being driven for more then 10 minutes. pervious owner had stated the brake lights stopped working when he added brake fluid turns out it was because the brake light bulbs were missing. I've done little work to the car just replaced the shocks and added headlight and brake light bulbs and bought a carpet kit and cowl vent seal. enough ranting onto the questions. I was quoted about 4.5k to rebuild the motor(265) complete top to bottom not sure if that's reasonable I cant seem to find rebuild kits to get a idea. the car has a lot of body roll when corning not sure if that's normal for a car of this era. was looking for a replacement gas tank as someone had previously "restored" the gas tank then drilled a whole in the top to run fuel line, seen several options but wasn't sure what one was a direct swap. I was spit balling the idea if the rebuild costs to much that i would just buy a donor mustang gt and take its guts and turn the Windsor into a cruiser. If anyone's done anything like that I would appreciate a reply.(any reply is appreciated)?