If you want to start from scratch, there's a 1940 project truck on EBay. I think it's stovebolter Nick Pruneda who is not far from you in Sanger.

Of course it would be a lot of work, but what else do you have to do?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/e...tegory=5348&item=4507803893&rd=1