Deciding on a project car - March 2007

I have been wanting to build a project car/truck for a long time. Now that the family and I have moved to Austin, I have a less demanding job and space to work on a project. Initially I wanted to build a '49 Merc or Ford kustom. Something like this:

but those cars are tough to find and I think a bit beyond my skill level right now. I went to the to the Lonestar Roundup car show in March 2007 and found an I found an idea for a project. I saw this truck while I was there

So now that I have decided on what I wanted to build it was time to try and find one.