[62stepside longbox]

Hey Preston, congratulations on the truck, sounds like you have a great dad since he did something as cool as giving you this truck. Good to some more young people on here, I'm 16 and I bought my 62 about a year and a half ago and didn't really make much of a plan and it just keeps on snowballing and the project just keeps getting bigger. So First things first before you do anything on the truck I would make up a detailed plan of what you want to do, use this forum as a source of info, look into other people's build threads to get ideas and if you have any questions don't be at all afraid to ask us! Here's Some ideas you might want to look into,
Disk brakes ( you can use parts from a 73-87 to achieve this)
Power steering ( use a box from a 73-87, you will need an adaptor plate made by captainfab on the forum)
Power brakes with dual master( again captainfab makes a great plate for this)

And as far as the frame goes, I say that if it's in useable shape then work with it.