I'm back! New truck!
 

After a 3.5 year hiatus, I have returned to the fold! Those of you not around back then, I used to drive a 1980 C10 stepside, and I had a 1984 GMC parts truck, too. After selling both of those and paying off my car, I jumped on this gem.

1981 C10 Chevy, 350 V8, Auto, Power brakes/steering, power windows (which I may do away with). Sliding rear glass, headers, side exhaust (which is entirely too loud lol)... Some rust issues with the doors but the rockers look solid and the cab floor felt good. Has some rust, but not as bad as Ol Red was. The exhaust is too loud for my liking, may look in to some quiet mufflers. Also, it has drop spindles in the front and leafs taken out the back. The guy said he'll swap me the stock spindles for the drop ones, cause I wanna put the truck back to stock height.

This is just gonna be the weekend warrior for hauling bikes and other manly tasks that my Honda isn't up to doing. Well, on to the pics.

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a321/cliffsta/1-1.jpg

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a321/cliffsta/2.jpg

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a321/cliffsta/3.jpg

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a321/cliffsta/4-1.jpg

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a321/cliffsta/5.jpg

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a321/cliffsta/6.jpg

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a321/cliffsta/7.jpg

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a321/cliffsta/8.jpg

And for old times sake, here's what my red truck looked like.

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a3...Truck/wash.jpg

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Hey Cliffsta! Glad to see you back. That's a nice looking truck!

Slonaker

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Welcome back brother! Now get off the computer, and yank off that fugly back bumper....LoL :D

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w/b weren't you havin a kid (or well not you yourself ;) ) when you took off?

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Nice! I'm diggin' the smoked light covers. Takes me back to high school.

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Dude!!!!! thats like winning the lotto!!! Congrats on the purchase:metal:

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welcome back......nice truck.

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Nice truck man, you sure like them step sides huh. Welcome back!

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Yeah the rear bumper has seen better days. May hit the salvage yard and look for something less bent.

No children from my fruit, though my baby sister is due to have her first child next month :)

The smoked light covers are nice, kinda suck at night unless you put on the high beams (which the p/o wired to keep the low beams on with the highs!).

Stepsides are where its at! I honestly would have taken a solid fleetside but I couldn't let this one get past me.

Like I said, first and foremost is to UN-lower it, kick the idle up, and look into improving the brakes.

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Nice truck, need to change your avatar as you are no longer truckless!

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Glad to see you back in the group. Looks like you have a truck that's much more solid than the last one. Now what's the crazy talk about " UN-lower it"?

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Looks like a nice truck man! Glad to see you back :) I'd keep the step bumper, saved my old stepper in two separate rear endings, haha. I am running a K5 as an offroad beater these days, no more restoration projects

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Nice truck. Welcome back.

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Hey glad to see your still around good to see ya got another truck too. Awesome looking stepper defiantly looks cleaner then the last one nice find :D

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Well I'm torn on the suspension. I could put in a flip kit and the stock leafs, and it would ride fine and be lower, but losing the ground clearance :-\ And the reason I bought it was cause first and foremost to pull a trailor / haul dirt bikes to the trails, and sometimes down the trail... So I"m gonna have to think about it for a while. Still leaning towards going back to stock height, though.

I'm not a fan of that hideous bumper but its utilitarian. Need to see if the bumper or the bracket is bent.

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Flip it /w/ a firestone level load system.
Nice truck, welcome back.
I had a bumber just like that one... and i miss it, cars behind me dont relize i could se EVERYTHING behind me (classic these year trucks) people would start honking when im a mile away! hahaha

utilitarian huh? is it act or rule? ha!