I agree with the Weasel. I just build it. I love the 100% original trucks...but the problem is you really can't drive those much...just because you'll wear out some of those parts that are a pain to find original or even in the OEM style...
And to me...it just hurts to see trailer queens. Every car and truck that ever rolled off of an assembly line was built to be driven. As good as these trucks were originally, I think there's quite a few mods that
should be made to a truck to make it a daily driver...i.e. disc brakes (or kevlar shoes for you drum aficionados, heh), radials, a few performance mods just to make sure you can get out of your own way fast enough to avoid the SUVs and riceboys...stuff like that...
In the extreme long term, I've got a fuel-injected big-block lined up for my truck. Short term, I'll just keep upgrading the smallblock it's got and make whatever other mods I can do to improve it as I go along...stuff along the lines of the 700R4 I put in, maybe a posi in the future, a nicer interior...stuff like that.
Heh...I hardly ever use the term 'restoration' anymore. I just use 'build' and 'project'.
