project faded Levi
 

Well we picked up a 72 C10 long bed for my son`s first truck, it was started 10 years ago but the PO died and it has sat parked in the weeds, he put a 67 front clip and doors on it. When we opened up the hood, it looks like a crate motor so we drug it out of the brush for a new life!

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Heres a couple more pics, we started this a few months ago so lots of progress but didnt start a build thread, so were playing catch up on posting.

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nice score!

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Thanks, he`s very excited to get her going and cleaned up!

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How sweet is that?

Cool Dad, truck, story.

Your son will never forget it.

Keep us posted.

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Are you sure that is a 72? It doesn't have markers on the bed side. And has the lower moulding like a 67. Nice truck either way!

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Yep, its a 72 that the PO tried to make a 67, did a pretty good job as it was over 10 years ago, the marker lights have been filled on the bed, its a 5 lug disc brake truck and the vin shows 1972.

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That makes sense, It didn't look like they had been filled because the paint looks so original. Very nice start!

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Well after a lot of clean up and a tune up, replaced the gas tank and bought a replacement carb, and put some penatrating oil down the spark plug holes she fired right upafter 10 years of setting, runs like a champ, now to go through the brakes and clean up the engine compartment! The boys are having some good lessons on how to loosen up old rusty nuts

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Nice find!

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Great looking truck and it looks like the body work done to it is quality. I would have never guessed that wasn't a 67. Good luck getting it back on the road!

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got her a new set of wheels off craigslist and a set of tires too and ordered the drop springs, going with a 2/4 drop and were going to pick up a factory sway bar and a quick ratio steering box tomorrow, so good progress so far

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We got the wheels and tires all mounted, the boys painted the wheels, grill surround and rear bumper to natch, I bet I cut off 50 lbs of steel the PO`shad welded to the rear bumper and frame over the years!

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We installed the new steering box and 2/4 drop today, looks much better and replaced the master and booster. The brakes had all been done so just a good cleaning to free everything up and old Levi is looking pretty good

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That has cleaned up nice. They have done a good job. Keep us posted as they make changes along the way.

Dwight

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looks great.

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Looks very nice now!!!

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Thanks, we finished the inside of the cab off with a new steering wheel, tach dash and the dash billet insert for the radio a new carpet and three point seat belts. We also replaced the door seals and window felts and rubbers.

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looks awesome!:metal:

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Truck looks great!

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very nice. little changes make all the difference in the world. I am a fan for sure.

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Thanks, this weekend its time to tackle the engine bay, spruce it up with a bit of chrome and paint, we replaced the carb with a edlebrock 1407 and going to use a Edlebrock proformer we took off another project a while back, just needs to be bead blasted and cleaned up a bit.

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Great looking truck.

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Nice looking ride. .. congrats

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Here`s a before and after of the engine compartment, turned out pretty good the boy did a nice job with the bead blaster and he used the Eastman manifold paint and we clear alodined the manifold so it should stay looking like this for a long while, we also had to replace the carrier as it was shot from sitting so long.