1973 Chevy Cheyenne-Super "Holyugacamoly"
 

Bought this truck from the 2nd owner. It has been painted 1 time on the exterior only. Very clean truck runs and drives Great. 130K miles. 350V8/350Trans truck has had a camper shell most its life.

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The interior is amazing! I can't get over how nice this truck drives. No rattles or squeeks with out a doubt the nicest square I have ever driven.The truck still had the owners manual in the glove box.

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Nice truck!

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Under the hood was all stock this truck is really like a time machine.

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The only thing that bugged me about this truck was it was a long bed. So decided to make it a short bed. So I took the bed off and took it to my buddies and we made it a short bed. I have another 76 gmc short bed we looked at both trucks side by side.

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Couple pics from the process. Brooks made a really Nice kit. Uses 12 factory holes for reference. Inner and outer plate bolts together with grade 8 hardware.

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Learned a couple things by doing this.

1. Gas tanks had to be changed. Shortbed tanks are shorter. Picture attached.
2. rear leaf springs are 4" longer after axle compared to short bed. However the frame has factory holes to move rear spring perch 4" forward if desired. I did not change to short bed leaf springs. I can drill new holes for bumper brackets.

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I have driver the truck 20 miles at variable speeds and terrain Kit is solid! I scribed around plates after drive no changes seen. Will be adding some welds because we can. (haha) This pic of truck is after kit installed and driven!!! still needed to cut end of frame

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After cutting rear of frame and putting stock short bed on. Fits perfectly!!

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Next will be getting the truck static dropped, and some new wheels and tires.

Also my buddy Kyle is going to be cutting down the green and white long bed sides making them short bed sides. Cant wait to see it all back together.

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Who is Brooks? Couldn't find any info on them
I like the truck

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I have never seen a bolt on kit to shorten the frame. I am glad you are welding it too. Nice truck.

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For a lot of reasons a bolt on kit is safer to market and sell to the average consumer. I spoke to Bret the owner of Ride Tech about it at length some years back. He explained to me that from an engineering stand point they are able to account for the strength and load that each fastener will carry and calculate the overall rigidity of that assembly. When you sell a product to be welded you are relying on the field installer and his knowledge of the welding process to create the bond. That is both unpredictable and not smart from a safety stand point. I thought that was an interesting take on the subject.

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A bolt-on kit is the way to go especially for a novice or someone that doesn't own a welder. One can weld it after initial assembly for additional insurance if desired (if they're skilled & have the equipment or the novice could take it to a shop to get just the welding done).

Nice truck.

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Wow that is really a beautiful truck. Maybe it would be worth the trouble to save the original bed?

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Looks up Built by Brooks on Instagram. He works (or used to) over at Porterbuilt. He has a build thread on a one off tube chassis on here. Amazing fab and design skills.

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Took the long bed apart.

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Beautiful truck i cannot wait to see it finished. and that woodgrain interior is the cats meow!

how much of a drop are you going with?

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Pics.

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Also had a short bed we took apart. Couple pics showing long to short bed floor comparison. Definitely want to do more long to short bed conversions.

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It is cool to see see both laid out side by side. So, 14" difference in the front and 6" in the rear?

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Yes 14" and 6". I thought it was neat to see a side by side comparison also.

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Gonna drop this truck the same I dropped my 1976 GMC.

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Beautiful truck. Never seen an original in that good of condition. Also never thought of myself as a purist til I saw this rig, ha. Any thought to putting that long bed in the rafters? I know they are kinda the equivalent of 4 door cars at the moment but that might not always be true. Nice find!

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Gonna have the long bed sides cut down to make them short bed sides. Kyle is doing it. I bought my 72 chevy from him that he cut down I have a thread for this truck on the 67-72 side, I call the truck #whitelie. Kyle is @c10ares on instagram.

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Just making sure. :) I have the 14" taken out of the front of mine, i just haven't cut the rear yet.

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That is what is taken out of the bed?, no need to take that much out of the frame. IIRC I only took ~3 off the rear frame. Leaves a little more room for mounting the bumper

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very nice truck you started with. Hard to find them that nice.

That bolt on kit looks like a great way to go. Is it made from 1/4" plate? Just wondering about the spring hanger getting spaced out that extra bit, if it causes any binding issues?

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ive read that its 12 inches and 8 inches, but i guess 20 inches is 20 inches, what are you doing about the drive shaft?

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Its 12" on the 63-72 trucks (127" long wheelbase to 115" short wheelbase)
Its 14" on the 73-87 trucks (134.5" long wheelbase to 117.5"short wheelbase)

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That makes sense. I should probably educate myself more on this process since I'm converting mine hopefully in the next month!:lol::metal:

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Got quite the looker there!! But I may be biased to 73 and the green/white combo (ours is 73 only marine turquoise though) come by our build thread we've done a neat trailing arm rear suspension on our LWB to SWB conversion

http://i1111.photobucket.com/albums/...E234E0CDEC.jpg

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Kyle @c10acres in IG did an amazing job on cutting the longed sides into short bed sides.

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damn those look good! I wish I could find someone here to do that for me

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Very clean. Outstanding work!

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I was thinking the same thing.

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Does Kyle normally have to sand back that much on the front or was there an issue that popped up?