First stage at restoration was moving the truck into an already crowded garage. I wound up knocking out a wall to make room for tool storage and a large sand blasting cabinet. Before beginning restoration you should give some thought about part storage. The shop can get cluttered with parts. Boxes and plastic containers work well for small parts. Knowing how you took something apart and finding the right components later on is a must. Save everything till you are certain that the old parts are no longer needed. Many times I have gone back to the original parts for comparison. I save everything down to the nuts and bolts till the project is completed. 

   At this point I started taking lots of pictures so I could remember how to put it back together again. Use a 35mm camera with an adjustable lens, The local Sams Club has inexpensive quality processing and bulk film. Box cameras, fixed focus type, can produce fuzzy pictures when object is outside of the range of focus. Looking back at the pictures I took many more could have been taken. What books and manuals that available are limited in pictorial breakdown diagrams. Try to get every angle of top to bottom of each part as film is cheap compared to the grief of not knowing how parts go back together weeks or months later. My stack of photo's is now five inches think and I still don't have what I need. The next step was completely disassembling every part down to the frame.  Not having any real experience at automotive work, this was going to be a challenge.

So far I have spent more money buying tools then if I was to find a restored vehicle. Learning how to use all these new tools is the next step.

Local trade schools offer night classes in welding and automotive repair at minimal cost consider taking a class or two.