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If you want one you can enjoy and drive NOW you can always buy one completed for less than you can do the work yourself. And if you decide a year or two from now it is not for you, you have a complete running truck to sell.

If you want the experience of rebuilding one than set the best one you can find with limited rust as others have said. If you loose interest in a couple of years and you bought it for the right price originally you should be able to recoup the cost of your parts, but labor will always be a write off.

There are guys here that seem to not have wifes, friends, girlfriends and enough money and time to redo one in 6 months. Others like me have worked at a different pace depending on time and cash on hand limitations. But I have always had another classic as a daily driver, so that was not part of the equation.