My daughter is married to a "restorer" who has just completed work on a 1948 one ton truck he found as a wreck on a nearby farm. He is now getting it proved as roadworthy.
Finding some of the parts took time and long searches on the net and correspondence with others who search the junk yards. He found a couple of hard-to-get parts at a car parts collector in Maryland. Getting the proper headlamps was another long search.
(His first effort was restoring an old Porsche 356 to new. Then there was the Triumph with those multiple carbs that only worked if the moon was in the ascension.....

Yes, people do pay money for that stuff. No accounting, huh?

The popularity of these programs shows that a lot of us have the bug; we have the diagnosis that the disease ic chronic, it is always there although sometimes in dormancy.

Found some good stuff at a city warehouse, including a number of those kerosene lanterns that they once hung at road repair sites, never used and thus in new condition. Now four-six of them could be wired to make a lighting fixture for the rumpus room or cottage.
I once made a collection of those old railroad hand lanterns for the same purpose. Never did make it, so the lanterns are in my basement somewhere...... along with some of those road repair lanterns that I didn't trade off.