Barn find '72, first solo project

[AWEGS72]

I've been a member on here for a while, but haven't posted in a long time. I haven't started a build thread yet either. I found this truck looking for some wood for a gun cabinet. A friend of a friends restored an old barn and had some old barn boards. I saw this truck and had to have it. I picked it up for $1800. He had it for 14 years and only really drove it for 3-4 out of those. The rest of it was stored inside. When I bought it I was truck nuts and started buying stuff for it(not a great idea). I ended up burning myself out. I put on new exhaust from the headers back,new lights, lowering spindles,de-arched the leaves,and bought lowering shackles. I put new brakes(brembo) up front and rotors. New dress up parts under the hood....etc, you get the picture. Its been sitting in my garage for the last year and a half. I've tried selling it but it wasn't selling. So I figure I might as well work on it since I can't sell it. I've been pacing myself this time. And only allowing myself small amounts of time on here. I enjoy working on it and don't want to burn myself out again.

Here are the first set of pictures showing the before state as I bought it.