Good looking, but oh, the manual steering and drum brakes.
No speed shifting that baby either.
Disc brakes would be my only mod, for safety reasons.................
I drove several split axle trucks. Starting when I was 15, I always had a summer job through when I graduated from college. At 17, the summer job was a county road crew in Oklahoma.
The road crew temps were mostly college and a few high school like me. The foreman asked if anyone knew how to drive a flatbed truck. I piped up that I drove tractors and ranch trucks so got assigned driving something like a F-750 or 650 flatbed with a 460 V8.
There was a button on the floor shifter. What's that? From the placard on the dash, I figgered out it was a two speed shifter button. The shift pattern picture showed the order of the gear ratios to shift in order. It was something like 1L, 1H, 2L, 2H, 3L, 3H, 4L, 5L, 4H, 5H.
The first few days of driving that truck, I must have ground away a few pounds of steel out of the 2-speed axle. An adult dump truck driver told me I had to double clutch as the axle gears weren't synchronized. What's a double clutch? The tractor only had one clutch. The truck only had one clutch.
Anyway, I figgered out the double clutch and shifting rhythm well enough after a few days that the truck was safe from me.