[88Jimmy4x4]

i was in the same boat as you with my 76 being low mileage original. I built this engine for mine, its sort of "stock looking" with the restored exhaust manifolds, NOS air cleaner and I kept everything black even though I think it should have been light blue for that year. The edelbrock intake manifold is the retro style with oil fill tube in front. Disregard the aluminum valve covers, those are being replaced with 68 camaro steel black covers.

Guess my point is, you can update the engine and still keep it sort of stock looking. Its whats inside an engine that counts.