You've got me jealous simply because you got to take it around the block!!
Now that you know what NOT to do, lesson learned.
As I have no brakes in mine at the moment, I cringe when spring hits and my mother has to roll it out of the garage in order to get into her storm shelter. I don't know what's worse, her rolling it out with no brakes, the tornado itself, or her trying to get it back in the garage....
I shudder to think about it. So until next spring, I don't think about it much
Even with all that said, here's your chance to shine. Fix it up and have a good story to tell. Use all of the original parts you can. Even if it's not perfect. Trucks used to be respected more when they had 'battle scars'. Nowadays, it's how pretty it is. I hated seeing a 3/4 to 1 ton dually that I saw driving in downtown Houston trying to park in a garage. Never got a good answer about why people were driving them there other than looks or intimidation on the highway.
