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Message: <blockquote data-quote="swampratt" data-source="post: 3616798" data-attributes="member: 15054">[USER=25311]@PanhandleGlocker[/USER]  That truck is a survivor and I would not mess with the paint or bodywork.I would power wash the crap out of the engine compartment and undercarriage.Check for worn things like ball joints and tie rods and replace if they need it.I would remove the junk in the bed and make it usable  to haul stuff.Little rust and holes in the bed will hurt nothing. Unless you haul sand or dirt then plop a tarp down before loading.Do the conversion to gas and drive it and  let it show it's life scars.Yea a shiny cookie cutter truck is nice eye candy but you will want to kill someone if they steal it or T bone it or dink it with a car door in the parking lot.At least that is the way I get when a shiny no dent car of mine gets dinked.Shiny no dink cars are out for me.I get more lookers in my rusty Dodge truck than any shiny thing I ever had.One guy called the color Root Beer.I like that instead of rust.</blockquote>