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Thanks Craig.


I thought I would show all you guys what my dad just picked up on the weekend. 68 gmc 3/4 ton burb with a 72 front clip and a 72 frame so it already has disk brakes and power steering. Has a 350/350 and runs like a top, made the trip back home no problem. His plan is to get it painted the original colour (olive green) and make it his daily driver/hauler. The previous owner had done some strange things to it.

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And we officially have snow:no:

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Congrat's on the Burb, gotta love an olive green one. Looking forward to updates on that one.

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Beauty burb! Perfect candidate for a Cummins swap hahaha

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Nice find! I really love those 60s colors. I'm glad that he is keeping the green color.

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3/4 ton suburban...very nice

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Thanks Doug, I'll have to see about creating a build thread for it sometime soon.

Thanks tony, haha I don't know, I think my dad would prefer the good old 350.

Thanks John, so do I, and to make it even cooler he is going to go back with the original white roof as well, and probably even the factory side window tint that it was ordered new with (the original sticker in the glove box is still there and one of the many options it had was tinted windows!)

Thanks, however i think it might be a frame swap since the vin on the body says it's a half ton

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Nice burb. You can Have the snow! lol

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Thanks, even more snow now and the temperature has really dropped, looks like progress will really slow down

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Yeah, same here. No snow yet, but temps have really dropped. And that makes for bad painting weather. lol I do have a shop so that helps, but it takes a Long time to get it warm enough in there to paint.

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I'm always on the lookout for old parts that I need or want, but today I found a true honey hole. Way in the back of an industrial area in my town is a guy that scraps cars for a living, most of the ones near the front of the property are newer plastic pieces of crap, but way towards the back of the property it starts to get good. This guy has a thing for 60-66 trucks, first thing I saw was this 63 factory k10 shortbox fleetside with next to no rust just sitting up on top of a big steal box.

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The rest of the truck was laying behind

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Then I started seeing stuff like this 66 Canadian gmc 910 With a 327.

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The interior

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And then this truck with a built 408 in it

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And a few cabs

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Green gmc

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And here's the best part, I don't have any pictures but there is a 61 Apache cab with tons of options on it and I'm going to take them all out and put them on my truck. And it gets better, there is an old 50's or 60's Ford bus that is filled straight to the roof with hubcaps and most of them are desirable ones in good shape ranging from the 1930's up until the 70's. This stuff is like gold, early corvette caps, beautiful ford artificial spinner caps, original hubcaps for a 61-63 k20, If someone could buy all the contents in that bus for $1000 it would be a good deal. Since it's so snowy and cold right now I am going to come back in the spring for a big load of parts, but I did however get this horn button for a wall hanger. And the best thing of all is that his prices are really good.

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Very cool finds! Will he sell any, or is he hoarding?

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Actually yes, he is selling for quite a good prices. But nothing is advertised, he only sells if someone comes knocking on his door with an offer. he doesn't mind parting things out, except for the 63 k10, that he doesn't want to separate, but I don't blame him

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The looks like a neat place....spring is when up yonder, JUne or JUly ? ;) :lol:

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Should be dry enough by March hopefully

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Dads suburban looks great on the pics.

Glad you found a nice car and a runner.


Your honey hole is an even better find, especially if you plan on doing another truck in future.

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Beauty find! Will have to go over there with you next time I'm in the Okanagan :metal:

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Thanks rian, the burb isn't too bad, but still tons of work to get it where we want it. And the truck parts find is definitely a score, I don't know about another truck though:lol:

For sure Anthony, let me know!

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It's been too cold to work outside for the past month but today it got quite a bit warmer and up to 5 degrees Celsius so I prepped the front section of the frame for paint and painted it with my favourite rustoleum gloss black. There are a few spots I didn't paint because they still require Welding such as the steering box area and upper shock mounts that still need to be relocated. It turned out pretty good, definitely looks better. Now I can finally install and bolt in the crossmember for the very final time

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Also painted and detailed the firewall paint line and painted the Bellhousing crossmember and the underside of the tunnel. The green and black sure look good together

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Nice work :chevy:

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5 degrees, even C is this down here, definitely no painting weather. :lol:

Nice work!

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Thanks buddy
Thanks, it should be fine lol. This paint does fine with the cold, just takes a little longer to dry fully

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Yesterday I went with my dad to my favourite little goldmine and picked up a bunch of parts, my dad got a really nice 67-68 slope nose hood with the trim and all the letters, a set of really nice suburban barn doors to replace his rusty ones, two partly damaged 67-68 Chevy grilles to weld together to make one good grille plus the aluminum trim and Chrome headlight bezels. He only paid $300 for all of this. Here is the grille I just finished welding together (the wood is just screwed in to help with alignment)

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And I pulled this chrome mirror from a 61 cab for my truck as the cast part is broken on mine

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And I also pulled this radio delete plate from a 64-66 gmc 4x4, I only gave $10 for the mirror and radio plate

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And then today I made some spacers to go between the crossmember and the bottom of the frame (since 60-62 frames aren't as tall there's a gap) and then bolted in the crossmember for good, it's not coming out again. So the next step is to bolt on the lower control arms, install the springs and spindles so I can put the wheels back on and set the truck back on the ground, and then attach the motor mount perch onto the crossmember and then install the engine for good.

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Nice Junkyard finds.
I see you cut out that section of frame to install your ps box.
Will you be welding that section back in, or do have some other idea?

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Thanks, yes I will be welding it back in, I just need to get some welding gas since flux core isn't going to cut it on something as important as the frame.

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So, will you then use longer bolts through the full width of the frame channel?