Jared,
Trust me, anyone can put a new paint job on an old truck but it's the special ones who respect it for what it is... and in your case, it's a family heirloom. Anyone who's watched Antique Roadshow has heard it a hundred times... "It would be worth a lot more if you hadn't refinished it".
Do yourself a big favor and get "Fireball" mechanically perfect and by then you will have fallen in love with the body just the way it is. Believe it or not, there are people who would pay huge money to have that paint job duplicated on their truck, and I'm one of them... if I had huge money.
