If that were my truck John, I would do the exact same thing. It has taken your truck 79 years to get the look it has, battle scars, dents, scratches and all. Fix the rot, paint the repairs so they don’t look too new, and drive that old girl. I wish I had an old truck that looks old. I have some original paint, but mine appears to have been re-shot at some point, and what I have still has some gloss.
