My advice is to keep the big truck cab intact if it is in good shape. Don't use it for donor parts.
Try to get a title for it. Once you start cutting on it the value drops a lot.
You can purchase reproduction patch panels for your Grandpa's truck and weld them in.
Either way the bodywork is labor intensive work and labor is costly.

Shawn you didn't break any rules but there are several companies selling (on ebay etc.) $50K trucks that are obviously "breaking the rules".
The buyer/owner has to learn what to look for.

Last edited by buoymaker; 06/12/2022 7:16 PM.

"Adding CFM to a truck will only help at engine speeds you don't want to use."
"I found there was nothing to gain beyond 400 CFM."