To get back on topic...
The OP's truck looks like an ambitious (in the extreme ...) restoration project...
For me, if I had access to such a truck, I think it would be great fun, as well as historically ... relevant (?) to make a period correct doodlebug out of it. Forget all the titling and registration hassles -- do what the old timers did and turn it into a tractor. Search around our site and you'll find lots of background and history on doodlebugs/struggle buggies/etc. But in short, After World War 2, it was hard, for a while, to find tractors, so handy farmers took their worn out pre-war farm trucks (um, like yours) and made them into tractors. And they had a whole second life.
It would save the essence and the charm of the truck (grille, hood, cowl, steering wheel) without the hassle of a very time consuming and expensive restoration. Best is if you can get that engine running (we have a Tech Tip for that
). Original chassis (cut down), original front sheet metal ... putt putt around the farm ... it would be tres cool as they say en Quebec.
Just a thought.
BTW, I did a web search on DuckDuckGo (which neither tracks nor sells your data) for "doodlebug tractors" and got back a lot of cool pictures.
