welcome to the shop Pete - robin58 has the right idea, look around and compare ... check out the gallery here to for visual reference

7500 for any truck that needs a total cosmetic resto [body, interior, wood] sounds pretty spendy to me, and will be worth it's weight in gold by the time you finish it .... and 57 didn't have a floor shift 3 speed, so if it's not actually a 4 speed, it's been modified there

Bill


Moved over to the Passing Lane

"When we tug a single thing in nature, we find it attached to the rest of the world" ~ John Muir
"When we tug a single thing on an old truck, we find it falls off" ~ me
Some TF series details & TF heater pics