Don,
The changes in that model are tremendous, and usually when the model company's do something like this it really isn't possible to match it in real time. But this truck can be very close. The theme is a wedge, if you look at the side profile, the chop on the roof and the windows. I think the hardest part is going to be re shaping the front fenders for the small diameter tires. It's going to be all steel and no bondo
I'm going to stretch the cab 1 1/2" so the doors can be flush mounted, and from experience the extra cab room would be nice. After watching Dan's project I'm thinking about making it so the roof comes off. I will only do this if it isn't noticeable. So It can be a rpu also. This isn't as easy as it sounds, there are a lot of considerations to be made.
I honestly don't know where some of this stuff comes from, I'm sure some of it spurs from things that I have seen other people have done and the rest of it I don't have a clue. But I know most of it comes to me about 3:30 a.m. The suspension stuff comes from owning a chassis shop for 18 years.
You are selling yourself short, I know of a real nice BLACK BEAUTY that came from some where, and the beginnings of a real cool truck.
Ken