As soon as I got it home, I gave a more thorough going over and started to find the sins of owners passed. It had two bondo face lifts and someone had riveted tin over the missing kick panels. The outer cowl was made entirely of mud and the front of the cab had sunk 2 inches over the frame. The only thing holding it up were the running boards.
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I dug in and made up new panels for all those that were rusted out. I don't have any pics of those, I figure you all know pretty well what is involved in replacing the structure of these cabs, unfortunately I had to learn that as well.
After several weeks of rust repair and grinding on body filler, I'd had enough and rolled it into the back yard and forgot about it.