I don't suppose I will ever restore a truck to show. I'm more interested into getting them back into the condition they were when I drove them over a half a century ago. My first semi had a bench seat like a pickup. My first Diesel was a 64 Int. cabover. I'm building 1 out of two. I am keeping the spring ride Bostrom seat and rubber pad Hendrickson suspension just to remind myself of how it was when I started. I bought 3 firetrucks very cheap. I am using the cabs from them for a 550 tractor, 550 gin pole truck and 600 wrecker. The 2 tons run, but I don't care to mess with the hydraulic brakes. They were farm trucks that would have been scrapped. I have had lots of offers from guys looking for a cab and motor, but I just don't like cutting them. I guess it is because I can remember many years of hauling grain out of elevators and watching the line of field trucks unloading. I was a 20 year old kid when I started doing this and in those days the farmers let their daughters drive the field trucks to the elevator. This made it even more interesting. When I was 27, I married a farmer's daughter. And her father had a 52 GMC field truck.
