I'm with Steve OldSub on this one. These trucks were sold as working trucks. I bet most of them didn't keep their off-the-showroom look more than a coupla years. I bet most of them spent 75% of their time on pitted gravel roads or in the fields, and I bet a trip of over ten miles was rare. But there is the rub - dbone you probably won't be using your truck this way so the decision is yours. But to me it seems more honest to the truck if you don't try to make it into something that it was never meant to be. Me, I don't even want to paint mine. It's a good running driver. I can throw whatever I want into the bed - it can stand in the rain with the windows open. I'll probably add a few dings instead of removing them. It'll do 50-55 as is, and its kind of relaxing to creep along like that and not feel like I have to hurry. I'd like to believe that I will be doing the same kind of repairs that the original owner would have resorted to. We'll see how long that lasts!
