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Originally Posted by dirty deeds

Thanks everyone for the replies. I probably won't be ready to begin any serious work for close to 2yrs so I'm just going to drive it and have fun putting around town in it til I get a few projects out of the way. I have to finish my drag car, restore my daughters tin lizzie model T (it was my dads when he was a kid, on it's 3rd generation now and older than the truck), restore an old Gilbarco gas pump and an adjustable tire inflator that belonged to my wife's grandfather, and an old trike bicycle that was my wifes grandmother's so I have a lot of irons in the fire ahead of the truck. I did plan to keep the long bed wheel base but if I did end up modding the truck I was considering chopping the bed length behind the rear fender down to short bed dimensions but keep the length in front of the rear fender. I think the proportions would look good like that and I would not have to chop and splice the frame. I'm not a huge fan of the extra bed length behind the rear fender if the truck ended up heavily modified, but I wouldn't care either way if I leave it stock. Everything's just ideas for now and I'll change my mind 100 times until I actually plug in the welder and fire up the grinder I guess no matter which way I go it's good I found this site and info on the fleet truck so I didn't end up tossing those parts in the scrap pile. If I do go the custom truck route I'll know to keep those parts and sell them to someone restoring one of these trucks so they don't go to waste. But for now, nothing is set in stone.

Boy you must be slow, Rick at American Restorations would have all those popped out in two hour long episodes.....