Another new member, from PA

[stumpy]

Hi, I just signed up to learn what I can about a 67 C10 I'm buying. I won it on eBay and I go to pick it up this weekend. It supposedly runs and is said to be solid, but rough. I won't bore you here with the details here, I'll just post that in the 67-72 section. Here is a link to the eBay item... http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...188914498&rd=1

My father bought a 72 C10 long bed fleet side with a 350/TH350. It was his first new vehicle and his first truck. I learned a lot about working on cars by working on that thing. I adopted it as soon as I was trustworthy and basically cared for it until he traded it in. He didn't ask me or I would have taken it from him. I was devastated when I first heard he traded it. Anyway, this will be MY first Glamour year C10, rather ours (me and the wife).

The funny thing about us getting this truck. I was looking for an old junk truck to score a 454 BBC donor engine for my race car. I saw this one day and yelled to her, "hey want to go to St. Louis and pick up an engine?" She said "Um, I'll take Hell NO for 100 Alex". So I dropped it pretty fast, but it was looking sweet to me. A cool truck I've been wanting for a while and the engine for the car, all cheap. Then, one day I notice that it was back on FleeBay and said, "hey that truck is back up for sale". She looked over at the computer screen and said, "wow, that's a cool looking truck. are you going to bid on it?" I said "yea, it's got a 454 too." She said, "great, you could put that in the caprice. Or, just leave it in the truck and we'll get you a 502 for the race car instead." I said, "who are you?" Anyway, we won and now we're planning to pack up the dogs and head halfway across the country this weekend to pick it up.

Anyway, this looks like a really nice forum. I'm excited about restoring this thing and look forward to all the advice and expertise that you folks have to offer.