I'm going to do a cosmetic cleanup, leaving the original military stencils intact and doing some running gear upgrades that won't detract from the "original" patina. I'll also trick it out with bed sideboards with Patriot Guard Riders' decals and flagpole holders, to participate in veterans' funeral escorts, etc. One fellow PGR member in Nashville has a mid-1960's fire truck set up that way. I talked to a local sawmill owner yesterday about custom cutting some oak planks to rehab the bed wood from a big tree that was uprooted by a windstorm on a friend's property recently. The tree is about 3 feet in diameter at the stump end.
Jerry
