Gonna be a nice rig, Cisco.
Divorced transfer case or two-piece rear drive line?
I am one of those clowns with two or three projects going at any given time and no $ to work on any of them, LOL
my #1 son and I are going to resto a jet boat my cousin bought new in 1977 that I have been in lust with since the first time I saw it, it is a 460/Berkeley set up, and I have actually made some progress on my '56 F-100..a truck i have owned for over 35 years.
It is also going to be a 460/C-6 deal.
If I didn't have my '97 F-350 7.3 diesel long bed crew cab 4x4 that I bought new and converted to dually, and if I hadn't tweaked it into (almost) exactly the hauler I need, I would be doing something along the lines of what you are doing, because I will never be able to afford or make sense of a 50k truck.
It has 94k on it, just really broken in.
I love the early big Ford trucks, always wanted to do a f-350 crew or supercab with a 12 valve Cummins...