53 3100 Project - My first truck build...

[hobo]

Have posted questions here-and-there, so I thought I should start a build thread to capture everything together. For starters, I wrench on mostly Harleys as a hobby and I've had a few muscle cars (68 Camaro, 69 Chevelle, and a 69 Nova). I'm a hospital worker by day, ride/wrench on my Harleys as stress relief and I'm a private pilot that does an Angel Flight about once per month. Soooo.....I say all that to make clear that this is all pretty new to me. I'll be learning a lot as I go, asking questions, making mistakes, and hopefully making progress.

Here is the girl getting trailered to my garage. Previous two owners didn't do much to her. She sat in garages, and the person I bought her from didn't really know any history or what had been done.