1964 El Paso C10 Shortbed
 

I finally thought I’d better start my own thread rather than hijacking other people’s posts with my questions…

Wind the clock back to around May 2021, and a Craigslist ad for a very original looking 1964 C10 shortbed caught my eye. I left it for a while as it looked to have rust in the usual places and some significant damage to the right rear bed side… and it didn’t run. More work than I really wanted to take on so I left it for a few weeks. Having had a long bed before, I was really wanting an original shortbed but they were all going for crazy prices (I’m sure you can relate…).

I finally contacted the seller and it turned out that it was still owned by the original family that bought it. It was an original paint truck, and importantly the seller seemed genuine - a very important consideratiowhen buying a truck without being able to inspect it in person.

Anyway, I bought it for all those reasons, figuring that there wouldn’t be too many major surprises given how original it was. A big thanks to the owner Jerry for selling it to me and all the assistance to get it sorted and good to go for transporting.

Enough talk, some pictures…

A picture from the ad. It had rust in each door corner, mostly the outer skin only, and the front guards in the usual spots.
https://i.imgur.com/wuGQBb2.jpg

Finally getting collected for transportation. Now rolling on new original size cross-ply tires that Jerry kindly had mounted for me to make transportation easier.
https://i.imgur.com/F6Qir3I.jpg

Re: 1964 El Paso C10 Shortbed
 

Nice find. What are your plans for it?

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Great Truck, more important what's in the box...?

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Congratulations on the great C10,
I'm excited to see what you make of it

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The plan is to get roadworthy, cut out all the rust, and lower it a touch. I like stock trucks on original tires, so nothing crazy. Of course I’d also love to put a V8 in it, but my budget says otherwise!

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That really stands out huh! That’s is a new rear bedside panel. It was way cheaper for me to get a bunch of parts shipped with the truck, so I ordered most parts I thought it would need. Jerry kindly packed them in the bed and cab as seen below. I ordered a lot of stuff…..

https://i.imgur.com/uHX49L2.jpg

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Here’s a screenshot from the original 1964 brochure. Even back in the day they knew they looked better lower. This looks to be about five inches lower than stock in the rear.

https://i.imgur.com/xotyy4e.jpg

That would have to be one of my favourite colours too. Mine will be staying in its original paint!

No idea why some of my pictures appear so large or how to reduce their size, so there’ll be more big pics coming!

Re: 1964 El Paso C10 Shortbed
 

Congrats, nice find. that should be a fun project. I agree with you that the short fleets are getting harder to find. With a little work you'll have that one lookin' fine. Have fun!

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This was the first time I saw it in the flesh, and it had few surprises thanks to an honest seller and good photos. Only key thing different to my expectations was the floor mat was shot. Not a big deal.

Note the panel gap between the tailgate and bed side. I’ll come back to this in a later post…

Nothing quite like original paint in my view.

https://i.imgur.com/qi0827B.jpg

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First order of business was to get it running which was relatively straight forward, but the original gas tank was no good having sat for years with gas in it. After driving it around with a small makeshift tank (and stopping for gas all too frequently) a new tank, sending unit, gasket, filler neck, grommet and gas cap were purchased and installed. The gas gauge now works!

https://i.imgur.com/jBN971q.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/7uVFDTU.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/NfnJspJ.jpg

Apologies for the large photo format…

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