Toby, the best things you can do, to help make this into a show truck are as follows.
1) Go to a few shows and figure out your long term goal with this truck, ex: will this be a street driver for fun on nice days?, A daily driver? a race truck? show only.
2) Do some reading and research on doing ranger engine swaps, this has been done a lot. You will most likely see some at shows and be able to talk with owner and look at parts and what it take.
3) Next figure engine trans combo, also start to gather parts, save money. This will allow to move forward with out set backs.
4) Have a daily driver to replace truck, once you start this swap you will run into problems. being able to stop working on truck, until you figure out a given issue will be very helpful, thus the need for a dependable daily driver.