I got the truck from Australia, it arrived in November of last year.
I was hoping to tidy it up and get it through inspection and on the road again, but after driving it around the backroads here a short bit, and taking a close look at the situation, I decided to tear it down and fix it right. I'm not going for the last-detail, concours sort of resto, i want to have the truck working right, solid, reliable, and without rot.
Though the seller claimed "
no beach, no bondo" when I queried him about the body condition and where the truck had been, it wasn't the case upon closer inspection
This is the underside of the floor pan and sill area: