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Brought home a '68 swb fleetside the other day, it's a driver quality truck and intended to be my daily driver. The 503 light green paint was likely done on the cheap as it's best viewed from about 10 feet away but it'll be fine for a truck I'll use everyday. Interior wise it's in good condition and the seat sits pretty well. The driver's window regulator has a couple of bumps in its travel, the PO gave me a new after market regulator but I think I'll spend some time to see if I can sort out the original first. It has a small aftermarket steering wheel that looks out of place, he gave me the original but a comfort grip should be a great replacement. The original 307/3ott runs and shifts well but I see a newer 327 or 350 with an automatic making its way into the engine compartment. I got a set of drop springs with the truck so as soon as I can get some drop shocks to compliment them we'll throw them in and see where it lands. Anyway here are the few pics I have now, I'll throw more up as soon as I get them.

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Looks nice!...

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I'd drive it!

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Great looking truck, Congrats.

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Congrats...... Nice looking truck

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Nice!

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That's a nice looking truck Buck, I'm a little jealous :lol:

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Nice to see you back in the saddle! Sounds like a good direction you've got planned out so far.

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Im in to see more of this one too.

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Still all wheel drum brakes?

I like it!!!

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Thanks guys!

Don't be jealous, it's not nearly as cool as what you're building. ;)

It's going to take a while, but we'll see how it turns out.

Settle in, this may take a while!

Yep, the truck is pretty much stock right now. I'll likely upgrade to front discs and possibly 4 wheel disc, but something that will fit the 15" wheels.

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Some interior pics...

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And the engine...

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Yeah I'm definitely jealous, look at that floor and those rockers! I don't care if the paint was a 100 footer, that is a beautiful truck!

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It looks good on the top side but there are some goofy repairs underneath. I'm not really concerned about it but if this truck was ever redone I'd have a complete floor put in it, just easier than doing several repairs. It'll do for what I need right now. ;)

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Pretty damn nice.

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Nice looking interior. I see that the dash is still intact. Just need a stock AM radio in there and it'll feel like you're back in 1968.

Also, I noticed the seat cover. Man, that must have been popular at some point. Your's is about the 5th one I've seen with that particular aftermarket pattern. The first one I saw was on a truck on ebay. A member ended up with that truck. I actually have an old thread where I was searching for that same cover in black. Would you let me know if you come across a manufacturers tag?

Hope you're enjoying the heck out of the truck.

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That is a really clean looking truck. Nice score!

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Great looking truck!

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Looks great Ernie!

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Thanks guys.

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I'll let you know if I see anything.

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Looks great! I'm glad to see you got another c10 to drive!

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The real question....how long before the phone call to PB?

Just kidding with ya...great score! Wish they had some up this way that nice!

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Thanks Mark, I'm diggin' it so far.

Well, I'm not gonna say there won't eventually be some Porterbuilt parts on this truck, c'mon the make nice stuff, but there will be no frame-off dropmember build unless there is a lottery win!:lol:

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Already commented on IG, but man I love this truck! Was it originally a GA truck?

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As far as I can tell yes. It was in Macon before it was purchased by the guy I bought it from in Ellaville.

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Hey ,ya'll quit taking our few good Ga trucks ,LOL .I just visited a friend yesterday that got bit bad by the Chevy truck bug .He wants my Square so bad he bought 3 old trucks ,one he is going to sell ,one he is building and not yet sure about the third and he still wants mine ,still not for sale though.

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Tackled a pet peeve of mine yesterday, I just can't stand the look of a crappy aftermarket radio in the dash of one of these trucks.

Some one welded up the original radio post holes to accept the aftermarket radio... travesty.
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So I brought them back to the original size to accept a radio delete plate.
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Then I painted a delete plate to match the 503 light green and...
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So much better!
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Beautiful! That might be one of the worst "aftermarket radio" additions I've ever seen.

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It looks much better now .

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Nice job!

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:crazy:Lookin' sharp! I gotta say, I've never seen that particular method used to fit an aftermarket radio before. :crazy:

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Radio delete looks good.

Clean/solid driver.

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Get with lolife99 he knows where to find them.

Yeah, weird right?

Thanks guys, just trying to fix some little stuff. :chevy:

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An awesome ride, looks like a great start ;)

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Little stuff....PB parts are pretty little and they are stuff :devil:

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Received a freshly refurbished, he called it driver quality but it looks really nice to me, gauge panel from Tom (TBone1964) I'll post pics when I get it installed later this week.

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Stopped by Summit on the way home from doing some college visits in North Carolina for my oldest son. (The kid has expensive taste is schools) Here's a pic of my younger son, he's my truck buddy. :metal:

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Cluster looks good! I can't wait for CTC to see the truck. I'm pretty jealous of being able to stop into a Summit store, I've never had the opportunity to go inside one of them, probably a good thing though.

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Very nice looking truck Buck, looks like a new signature is in order :)

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Sadly we won't be at CtC this year, too many other obligations. As for the summit store, I ordered the night before and just picked up what I ordered... no browsing! :lol: