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I'm deployed in Afghanistan and find myself lying awake at night with visions of my grandfathers 52 work truck. This truck was my fathers when he joined the navy and moved away from home. It had been his fathers before that. When my parents were pregnant with me they couldn't afford a house and my father was going to sell the truck to help pay for that. My mothers father wisely took it off of his hands for safe keeping. I vividly remember him driving me to church in that truck when I was young. The truck has been garage kept and not driven in over 25 years. My grandfather is getting on in years. My limited experience with vehicle maintenance and repair has come out of necessity thru owning inexpensive used vehicles. I have a dream of restoring this truck to modern functionality while maintaining its period look. The original motor bit the dust years ago and although he has two motors from that year in the garage, they are not parts matching and I don't plan on using those. I would like to drop a crate motor in but I don't know the size of the engine compartment so I can start my wish list of power train parts. I apologize for the length of this post and look forward to any help or pointers that might send me in the right direction.

V/R

Griffin