Feel free to have a go with any donor car you can get to fit inside the body, it'd be a heck of a challenge.
For me though, it's not about performance and handling - my modern car performs and handles really rather well - it's about the experience of building and driving something that feels as if it's from a bygone era where you actually had to
drive the car to get the best out of it.
Good luck with whatever you choose to build.