yeah, what John says .... Deve, you aren't doing a "restoration" in any sense, nor are you making your truck "as they intended", you're doing a resto rod using as much spendy modern off the shelf stuff as you can because you think that makes it better than "they intended" .... and that'd be gall, Gaul was a country grin

Bill


Moved over to the Passing Lane

"When we tug a single thing in nature, we find it attached to the rest of the world" ~ John Muir
"When we tug a single thing on an old truck, we find it falls off" ~ me
Some TF series details & TF heater pics