After getting it home and going over it more closely I decided to make it a daily driver so I ordered a new top, swapped on a set of Tokico struts with H&R springs from a parts car, fixed the belt and rad hose, pulled out most of the interior, and started driving it.
'92 parts car that I bought last year. It was parked in a field for 10-12 years and is pretty rotted- even the windshield frame has rust holes across the top. It had a bunch of cool parts like the struts/springs, clear marker lights, '94 XR2 spoiler, K&N filter, and a powdercoated valve cover. They said they parked it when it started knocking but after getting it running it seems to just have lifter tick. Not a bad find for $150...
My plans for the car were to pull out anything unnecessary to drop as much weight as possible. The interior was trashed so almost all of it ended up in the dumpster. I cleaned and painted the floor to match the dash color, removed the mess of stereo wiring, detailed the dash, console, step plates, etc, and bought/mounted a used Sparco race seat from a friend. I had to swap in a headlight module (it was missing) and both headlight motors from a parts car to make the headlight doors work again.
The heater floor duct was routed to the back floor so I cut it off so heat would be directed to the front floor instead.
Indoor/outdoor grip tape to replace the pedal pads.
Sparco seat... I haven't decided if I'm going to keep it and order a new cover for it, or find a matching pair of seats to swap in instead. I mounted it using a set of universal side mount brackets and the sliders from the stock seats.
New top installed.
At this point I had the rad hose fixed, new wider alternator belt on, battery swapped out for the correct size and bolted in using hold down parts from the white parts car, and a bunch of other small issues sorted out. It looked much better slightly lowered with the new top, but still pretty ugly. A friend of mine wanted the steel wheels for his 323 so I began looking for wheels. I got it registered and insured and started driving it back and forth to work.