MoeMan's 65 BBW shortbed build

[MoeMan]

After years of lurking the forums and a year after I purchased my '65...I finally started today.
My truck is stored 110 miles away so time is precious. I removed the front fenders and the tops of the radiator, and upper fender pieces and brought them home to work on them.
It really opened up the front floor so I can now better see the pieces of sheet metal I need to buy at Spring Carlisle in a couple weeks. (My truck is up by Carlisle, so I plan to bring the cab back when I go up for Spring Carlisle.)
Cab needs most floor pans and rockers and the portion that goes down to the rear bottom fender brace. Windshield area is really clean so that's one plus.
Plans are for tubular upper and lower a-arms, rebuild front end with 4" drop, 5" drop and half circle frame reliefs. Converting to 5-lug 4-wheel disk brakes. Built a stout 406 sbc for it, but now going with BBC. Merlin 4.600 bore with a 396/427 crank. Going to put as long a rod as possible for the best rod ratio to better enable running regular gas with 11.0.1 compression. I think it works out to around 500 ci. Backing it up with a muncie 4-speed.
I am thinking of painting it fawn with white top. Steel wheels.
We will see how many times I change my mind, read along and enjoy!