So, I figured I would update, the little that has been made. I brought the chassis to a buddies shop, thinking it would be nice to have a lot of space and a significantly larger selection of tools to work with. Unfortunately, it didn't work out as well as I hoped it would. Our schedules conflicted, therefore I wasn't able to get over there as much I would have liked to. Nonetheless, I went and stripped it down a little further, cleaned it up a little more and brought it back to my house on a trailer.
I stripped the entire front end, which I plan to completely replace anyways.

The drivers pan has rust, but otherwise seems to be pretty solid. I am deciding whether to go ahead and replace to or not. I was thinking about just getting it media blasted and then seeing how the pan looks afterwards.







I figure, I will strip the rear end down and have the chassis media blasted, weld in new passengers, decide on the drivers/replace drivers pan, coat it with rust preventative and begin to build the chassis back up.