Thanks for all the welcomes! We are not going to cut the body. My husband cringes when I say it looks "cute" like it is! We want ot fix it up so it is dependable and somewhat original. My first objective is to relace the two front seats with a bench seat. We have a 5 year old that LOVES this truck and we want to make it so we all three can ride in it "legally" with seatbelts. That is proving tougher than I thought, those bench seats are hard to find. Does anyone know if a bench seat from another type of vehicle will fit? (hence the "somewhat original"

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