Project Blue Truck (part 1)

So this is my 1964 Chevy c10 step side pickup truck. It has seen better days as it has been sitting for the last 20 years in my stepdad's mom's back property.  It is sitting next to his dad's 1965 version.  He wants to restore his dad's but he gave me his. Hell Yeah!  Now I am a huge fan of the ratrod style of vehicles so this truck makes me happier than a kid at Christmas.  It took my grandpa and myself several trips to unearth this baby from where it had settled.  It required moving a giant fuel tank off the bed,  removing the wheels and tires, replacing three tires and one rim and tire, disassembling the seized brakes, strapping the roof down to stop it from pealing back like a tin can lid, and hand cranking the truck inch by inch onto my car dolly with a come-along. Whew.  But now it is at the house.  I removed 4 full trash bags of leaves, and sticks, and carpet, and rusted metal, and spiders, and an actual rat.  Which is fitting for a ratrod.  I'm really excited about this project and my current goal for it is to be a sick, low, loud, dirty, and mean daily driver. Upon measuring the space in the engine and the placement of the existing motor mounts on the p.o.s. straight 6, my nissan sr20det motor should fit right in snug as a bug. I think that would be a sick hybrid which is perfect for this hodge-podge style of vehicle building.  Plus it would save me a few bucks in buying a new motor. Always a plus.  Also being able to swap the motor back and forth between the s14 and the blue truck would be awesome.  Imagine pulling up to an race or show (albeit early) with the blue truck pulling the the s14, swapping the motor into the s14, and then swapping it back to go home.  Sounds like a lot of work, and it is, but it sounds pretty cool to me.  I think it would draw a pretty big crowd. Maybe i'm a glutton for punishment, maybe i'm poor, maybe they go hand in hand. oh well, we shall see.

custom air vents...^