Originally Posted by nebraskasurf (Post 4305918)

here's my K5. 1972, color is NASCAR Rocket Red. sits on a 4" lift. 350 crate engine with about 20K miles. tranny, transfer case and rear end all been rebuilt and completely beefed up. interior completely restored as well. This truck has been a blast in the summertime...as soon as the temp hits 55F, the top comes off and doesn't go back on until early November. When the snow flies, the beast comes back out for some fun and then immediately back to the garage until the slop goes away.

i'll post better pics soon.

Originally Posted by 92GMCDriver (Post 4265918)

Heres a few, These trucks were all build by my friends dad. the only ones i really know anything about are both the orange ones. The complete one has a 454bbc modded to the gills aluminum heads, intake, cam, etc and the incomplete orange truck has a pretty stout 350 sbc with some mild mods done to it.
http://i750.photobucket.com/albums/x...thehotrod2.jpg
http://i750.photobucket.com/albums/x.../thehotrod.jpg
http://i750.photobucket.com/albums/x...er/white69.jpg
http://i750.photobucket.com/albums/x.../convert72.jpg
http://i750.photobucket.com/albums/x...dreamtruck.jpg

Originally Posted by six862m6 (Post 4253390)

hey guys, brand new to the site and thought i'd share some pics of my recently aquired '68 gmc 1500. I did a straight trade to a guy because his old lady wanted my '97 lexus sc400. I think i made out to be honest. Anyway, always loved these trucks but could never afford one (a decent one) when i was in high school. I always drove the next generation trucks (73-87) when i was in high school, but i finally got the truck i always wanted. I plan on redoing the interior, it looks good in the pics but its an older job and i'm not a fan of the full length custom door panels. Also am going to add an a/c kit to her (any suggestions/opinions on the various kits out there and helpful hints when installing? :) ) and finally i want to convert her to disk brakes in the front (again, suggestions/opinions/hints, i will not be doing a big, high performance upgrade though, i just don't see the need. I will not be racing her). As for a couple smaller upgrades, i think i may add power windows to her with the fake window crank handles as the switches and convert the headlights to hids (it has already been converted to bulb style halogens, any suggestions on the hid kit, i know its possible to burn up the wiring with these and i certainly don't want to do that). A little more about her before i post the pics, i'm told the body job is about 4 years old and they did a really good job. The rockers, rocker backings, and cab mounts have all been replaced, but very nicely. You can't make out the welds and in the rockers you can barely see where they cut and spliced it. They also took the time to rubber undercoat everything underneath once done. The floors were not replaced as it was not necessary, i believe due to the next couple facts. She was originally a texas truck i am told and spent most of her life there. She also has just under 80,000 original miles. Documented on the title. The title also states that she was originally a v8 truck (probably a 327), i can decipher that from the vin, but other than that and that it's a 2wd, 1/2 ton, i can't get much else; what can you guys make of this part of the vin (serial number replaced with "xs" of course :) ): Ce10dpbxxxxx i'm told its engine is a 400 small block (hence the emblems) but yes i do know these did not come with 400 small blocks and that the emblem refers to a big block 396 that was the stock big blocks in these i believe. Just happened to work out for the previous owner's choice of engine. I will try to get the numbers off the block to positively id it. There is some debate about the transmission as well. It was originally an automatic and still is, but the guys at work (who are pretty versed in old vehicle parts even more so than myself) can't agree on if it's a 350 or 400 turbo. I'm not a transmission guru myself, so any pictures for pointers on how to indentify these easily would be appreciated as well. Finally, i have no idea if the rear end is still stock, but i do know she will spin the tires very easily if asked to (i found out accidentally when just trying to "goose" her a little :) ). Ok, without further rambling, here she is:

http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q...0/cimg0596.jpg

http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q...0/cimg0597.jpg

http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q...0/cimg0598.jpg

http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q...0/cimg0600.jpg

http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q...0/cimg0602.jpg

http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q...0/cimg0604.jpg

http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q...0/cimg0607.jpg

http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q...0/cimg0608.jpg

http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q...0/cimg0609.jpg

and my personal favorite :) :

http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q...0/cimg0611.jpg

let me know what you guys think and sorry for the slow load time for those of you with slower connections!

Originally Posted by VDOG (Post 4212135)

Hey guys Im new here and love the place,I have this 71 c10 and another 4x4 in the works.. I live up in nor cal and own two collision repair shops.. This looks like a great place and I will post more pics of the builds as I go...You an see my shops at WWW.HEALDSBURGCOLLISION.NET I will be donating to the site asap!!!

Originally Posted by JohnOstuff (Post 4205851)

Sometimes you just need to say "I dunno"

Originally Posted by seldomseen65 (Post 4316323)

Good man , question for you ,,,what size tires are on your very nice looking truck,,looks very clean and original ,,like the colors ,,thanks for posting it on here .