Sandy is right, those old turds handle like a drunk wearing roller skates on greased ice. (my ode to Uncle Tom)

Straight axles, king pins, (now decrepit) leaf springs, teeny drum brakes (which were too small even when new). There are cures for all of this, just costs moolah. Rebuild the axles, replace the springs (fiberglass or carbon fiber are even better....sit lower, ride smoother, handle safer and outlast the originals)

Am sure you can convert to disc brakes using mostly off the shelf Mopar parts (Carmine, suggestions?)

My story of a early mid 60's Chevy van (inline 6 between the seats). At the time I was supplying vehicles for movies and TV shows.......for the pilot episode of Wolf (TV show) they wanted to have a stunt in which a car chase ends up with a car crashing into a tow truck towing a car. Well I scrounged up this van at the junk yard.....the cylinder head was laying on the floor and everything was apart. but none of that mattered.

We did the stunt but they never crashed the cars. At the same time a movie crew blew into town from Hong Kong and they wanted a van for their movie! Showed them the heap and they loved it, all I had to change was the color. "Does it run?" they asked "Sure thing, like a top" I sez.

The next day I took the head to the machine shop, had them vacuum test the valves, check for cracks and straightness and slapped it back on with new gaskets etc. Crossed my fingers and it fired right up......even the transmission worked! I love it when I can sell the same vehicle several times. This HK crew was great, I sold them a couple of different vehicles a couple of times each and at the end of production they gave them all back to me to resell to members of the local crew!! What a hoot.

Anthony