You will learn a lot from this book :
How to Restore Your Chevrolet Pickup (2nd edition ) by Tom Brownell
That link is a review of the book, it will give you and idea of breaking things down, etc..
more books about various things:
publications
As oem4me mentioned :
project and build threads . See what others have been doing.
Welcome to the forum.
-W
p.s. yeah ,we love pictures.
