DaddysOldZ

I'm 23 years old, and for my entire life there has been a blue 71 240z sitting in my parents garage (Even when we didn't have the room for it). My parents haven't parked in their own garage with their running cars since 1980. From what my parents remember, it originally went in there due to a broken fuel pump. Well, my father for my entire life has been telling me that he would start fixing it when he retired. Well he retired a year ago and still it sits in the garage. A few years ago my buddy and I decided we wanted to restore it, fix it, race it, and generally supe it up. We don't have any abilities that suggest we're even somewhat up to the challenge, but I figure we can learn as we go along. My parents moved and I'm paying for all the junk in their garage to be put into storage so I can have room to work on his (and now MY 71 240z). The things should be in storage in a few weeks, so I was just curious if anybody had any suggestions on where to start, and what major issues we may come across. Just from viewing it over the years I can see that everything that was once rubber on the car needs to be replaced including hoses, belts, etc. It was stored with gas in the tank, so I'm assuming we either need a new tank or seriously clean out the one we have. What my buddy and I were going to do was pretty much just take the engine apart piece by piece and clean the thing. While we were doing that, we'd try to make it ok for unleaded gas, and maybe convert the AC. We've got a lot of work to do and a lot to learn, but I'm thinking a year worth of weekends from now we'll both know what makes a Z tick and maybe even be able to start the engine and take my poor father out for his first ride since 1980.