New Here With A '68 C30!
 

Hello all,
I have a long time friend who's Dad has a '68 C30. His Dad is 86.
He has owned this low mileage C30 since about 1975.
It was a cab chassis cab over camper for years. He sold that off & its currently a home brew flatbed. Roughly 75K miles. Kept indoors forever.
My friends father is selling off his vehicles, as that happen at that age.
I could not pass up the opportunity for a decent survivor 1 ton flatbed dually!
307, 465 granny 1st 4 spd...
Hope to learn a lot here. Converting to 4x4 I hope is in its future.

My photobucket is down right now for posting up a pic... :(
No good pics yet as I have to go pick it up.

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My photobucket is back up.

This is is what I got! Farm special.. :mm:

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Re: New Here With A '68 C30!
 

Welcome, looks like a nice truck!

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My dad had a 68 4x4 flatbed it had cattle racks on it.

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Thanks guys. We feel lucky to have had the chance to buy it.
I know it could be a lot of work, and I am studying it, but I would like to have a 4x4 farm truck.
I have a professional 4x builder who says he can do it.
...We'll see... :mm:

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Well I've had this truck about 7 months now. The issue I was having with it was a rusting fuel tank in an otherwise solid truck. I read not to rot the tank, so I picked up a Summit fuel tank. In fact I went through three Summit fuel tanks... Each one had a filler neck that was at the wrong angle so the filler neck would not fit through the cab. I thought I was getting damaged tanks from shipping, but it ended up Summit fuel tanks are reproduced with the filler neck at the wrong angle.
Long story short lol, I got my money back and the local degrease/corrisive cleaner dude fixed me up for $50. Its was only a minor surface rust - inside looks like new now.
Done deal and my motor runs fine now. Of course that took a carb rebuild, full tune & all fluids changed, and a Pertronix ignition installed.
New single exhaust on the monster stock 307 ;), and all is good. A local tire shop is fixing my split rims (not widow makers according to them) tires when needed (only once so far).
Clutch is fine, transmission shifts well, and I must have low rear end gears because its fairly tached out at 50mph.
It just turned 70,000 original miles!

I have a prime original runner...
Cheers

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...ps1mt5bj7p.jpg

Re: New Here With A '68 C30!
 

nice rig and welcome to the board ..

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Nice ride. I like it.