Project Arrested Development

[DeanTX]

Hi, I've been mostly looking on the site for a while and getting some great ideas.
About a year and a half ago I found a 1951 3100 5 window body and bed for sale. No dents and relatively little rust. Some rust out on passenger and driver floor, and bottom of cab corners, some rust on bottom of lower cowl area. It was what I was looking for since I did not need the engine or frame because I was planning on an S10 frame swap. Having just the body metal saves time to disassemble too. Engine will be Vortec full roller 350, 700R4 tranny.

While storing the body and all other sheet metal I located a Sonoma. It was a 4x4 but after seeing how a 4x4 turned out for Msaintg on here I thought it was a good deal.

Right now I'm thinking of keep the patina vs. painting. Please chime in with your opinion on whether it looks OK as is.