[Lugnut64052]

My plan is to basically restore it back to a bone stock daily driver with a few upgrades here and there for better reliability, then have fun using it as a work truck/daily driver.

It had on it some cheapie headers which were leaking badly, some steel packs which the whole back half of were rotted off and missing, some chrome valve covers, the wrong air cleaner can, part of the choke linkage had been removed from the carburetor . . . well, you get the idea. First thing I did was pull the engine and start hunting up O.E. parts to put back on it. The engine is a 3970010 block and seems to run fine, so I'm going with it. I didn't bother to find or look up the front number to see where it came from, but it had a late '70's throttle cable bracket on it, with the throttle cable and the TV cable both zip-tied to it. Fairly fresh orange paint-- looks like a couple of years old rebuild.

I hunted up some rams horns and put some fresh studs in them, then started putting plug wires on it. Also found some stock valve covers, and screwed a new temperature sending unit into the head.