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Re: cab rust - is it bad?
The lower panels around the door post are just common fixes on these trucks and you can buy a lot of the replacement parts to do it.
Fenders, The good is that you can set one up on a stand so that you can sit comfortably to work on it. Someone on the net showed a setup that they made to hold a fender on an engine stand to be able to flip it over to work on it that caught my attention.
The roof, it is either find a good roof to either swap or cut patch panels out of. I'd be looking at Old Dead grain trucks as donors. On them a lot of the time the only thing that isn't beat to death is the roof. Even if someone stomped in the center of it as long as the section you need isn't rusted life is good.
Otherwise it is hone your skills with a shrinker and stretcher and learn to build forms to shape metal around.
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Founding member of the too many projects, too little time and money club.
My ongoing truck projects:
48 Chev 3100 that will run a 292 Six.
71 GMC 2500 that is getting a Cad 500 transplant.
77 C 30 dualie, 454, 4 speed with a 10 foot flatbed and hoist. It does the heavy work and hauls the projects around.
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