Some of y'all are talking apples. He has an orange. With two acorns on top.

Dankjt,
Check to make sure that the bottom of the sides haven't spread out from overtightening of the 2 nuts over the life of the truck. You can bend them back into place with your hands.

Clean the top of the head and the bottom of the valve cover and place the valve cover on the head without a gasket and use a thin feeler gauge on the driver side of the cover and the front and back for gaps. Now the tinsmith work begins. Hammer down the high spots while the cover is on the head. The head will be your dolly.
The passenger side of the cover has a flange in the way which prevents you from using a feeler gauge. You can use a straight edge on the top of the cover on that side to check for high spots and hammer them flat. That side of the valve cover usually doesn't need much work since the flange has a stiffening effect there.

Check the top of the valve cover where the 2 holes are and make sure that area isn't recessed from 70 years over overtightening. You can fix that with an appropriated sized deep well socket and a socket extension and a hammer. Do this with the cover upside down on a 2x6 on a bench.
Have fun, then brag about it with perfect strangers.

1952 5-window - return to "as built" condition | 1950 3100 with a 235 and a T-5 transmission