1972 C10 Cheyenne "Betty"
 

Pretty excited about this one. Figured I would get a thread going on this one. She pretty much fell onto my lap. I called my buddy one day to ask about a favor on a marketplace deal in his town. Deal fell thru but in our conversation he was telling me he was picking up a clean 72. He sent a couple pics. Right away I asked "want to sell it" He said yea maybe.. he sent me some pics the seller sent him.. after seeing them I could tell the truck was in pretty good shape.

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Next day he sent me some more pics, after I seen them I was like yea, I got to have this. We talked price and agreed on a deal.

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Story on the truck was that it had been at a mechanic shop for several years, Owner got tired of it and sold it to the mechanic. Mechanic didn't do anything with it so he sold it as well.

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A few days later me and my son were on our way to Tyler, Tx. After seeing the truck in person, I was was pretty happy to see that the rust was very minimal. Passenger side rocker and cab corner needed to be replaced as well as a small section of the floor pan by the rockers. That was it. It had some great patina. Even though I wasn't a fan of long beds, I knew this truck was a solid candidate for a shortbed conversion. We loaded up in near triple digit heat and headed back south to Houston.

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I dropped it off at my parents house cause I needed to make room at my house and I needed to sell another 72 longbed that I had been holding on to before I started wrenching on it. But I did throw on some clean rally's with whitewalls and I cleaned out the bed. It looked good I must say. It had the Window cover which I thought was pretty cool so I put it on the windshield.

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A couple weeks went by, I finally sold this other 72 longbed I had. First thing I did was set an Appt with Mr. Esparza to get the bed cut down. The very next week I went to pick up Betty for her appointment. I pulled the camper shell off. I was happy to see that the top of the bedsides were not rusted out

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Mr. Esparza does not waste any time, the very next week I was getting update pics. A few days later and she was ready to be picked up.

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Wow, seeing it in person had me with my biggest koolaid smile... I was very happy with the job that Mr. Esparza did.

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Once I got her home the first order of business was to give her a CLR bath. This was the first time I washed her. She cleans up nice.

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Here a few more pics...

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Next order of business is to get it running. The wiring looks like a rats nest so hopefully its not too bad. We will see.

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Do you have a picture of the steel bed floor chop? The bedsides look super clean :metal:

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Not at the moment.. I will get some...

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Not much updating... been busy with Family and work.. I started to disassemble the core support to pull the Engine.. It needed it.. the Core support bushings had seen better days.

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Future plans???

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Oh yeah this is looking sweet, looking forward to seeing this build.

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Working on it everyday. Installing lots of new parts, I will post up some pics in a few days..

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Thx brother.. Your Ochre truck is an inspiration for sure.

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Never seen a bed shortend in that manner before .. Keep up the good work...

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Sorry for the delay.. with the holidays and work.. I really slowed down on posting. I pulled the engine before Xmas to get the front frame section cleaned up. and rebuild the engine.

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Thx!

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Now that the engine was out the way.. I pulled the front suspension off.

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Cleaned up and dirt and grime.. Prepping it for the POR 15 Top Coat Paint.. I like using the top coat. Its much easier to lay down and touch up.. plus its pretty good against oil and grease. This isnt a show truck, just a nice daily so upkeep wont be so badAttachment 2331302

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I used the Gloss black.. not sure how i feel about it.. I may change it over to semi gloss..

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Threw the suspension back on to roll it around. Im going with all new 73-87 suspension soon.

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Dropped it off at my buddy Israel's shop. He's gonna do the Sheetmetal work and repaint the firewall. Once I get it back I will repaint the frame Semi Gloss and install the new suspension.

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Dug into the engine..it was pretty dirty. Did find out that its already .040 over so that was cool.. I pulled the main caps and found copper showing.. they're all pretty bad so its gonna need a rebuild. Kind of changes my engine plans...

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Nice work, I also have never seen the bedsides shortened like that but it makes sense.

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Thx... Yea I think this way is better..

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Been awhile.. Got some update pics from the Body man..
Firewall is gonna look good!

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More update pics.... these are ugly but glad we found it..

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old Betty is cleaning up quite nicely :c2:

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Little by little...

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Firewall is all smooth now.. its gonna look really good once it gets paint.
Work continues on the driver side rocker/floor.. out with the old and in with the new... and this is the "not that bad" side...lol

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Any updates?

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Any progress

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Yea I've got some progress pics on it. Been pretty busy with another project and work. I will post up some pics this week.

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Sorry for the delays on progress pics.. between family and work. I haven't had much time to get on the forum.

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Here are pics of the floor and cab corner work. We had the floor sandblasted to get all the old crud off the bottom. That revealed small holes here and there on the floor and floor bracing as well.Attachment 2381631

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More pics of the floor work...