Unpimping my ride

[neverfinished]

I recently bought a '73 c10 and spent the past few days unpimping it. What's the strangest/funniest customization you've run across in a truck that a PO installed.
Here's my list of things I pulled out of the truck so far.

1. Carpet, it was everywhere. The only metal in the truck not covered by carpet was the steering column and the lower dash. I'm not talking automotive carpet either most of it was shag. I left the carpet on the floor to be removed later and replaced with a molded carpet set. Now I have to scrape glue off 3/4 of the interior walls.

2. Speaker boxes only a midget could love, mounted directly above my head I was brushing them with my head the whole way home that and two boxes bolted to the headliner just looked bad. They had to go.

3. The headliner with more snaps than a tonneau cover and a scary overhead console. Once I got the speaker boxes down I realized I better take the rest of the headliner down too. The center console hung down farther than the speaker boxes and the shelf in it was so small I could barely put my hand inside. Once I got the console down I realized I better take the whole headliner out because the speaker boxes and console were all held on with 90 degree angle brackets screwed into blocks of 1x2.

4. An air horn. On the roof. It was a bit much and it's a good thing I took it down. Under one of the mounting pads was a lot of rust. Enough that I'm trying to figure out the best way to patch a roof without setting the insulation on fire.

5. Not really weird or pimped but I pulled the air cleaner to find THE TORNADO. I've only seen them on infomercials, now I own one. It's still on the truck for now but I can't help thinking that it probably does more choking of the motor than it does increasing air flow.

[boatpuller]

http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...us+owner+fixes

here's a link to a thread that ran for awhile a couple of months back,that is exactly what your talking about.it's a good one alot of top notch engineering and some pics.i think you'll like it...and i see your new....welcome aboard..and post some pics if you got them would like to see your truck.

[neverfinished]

Originally Posted by boatpuller

http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...us+owner+fixes

here's a link to a thread that ran for awhile a couple of months back,that is exactly what your talking about.it's a good one alot of top notch engineering and some pics.i think you'll like it...and i see your new....welcome aboard..and post some pics if you got them would like to see your truck.

I'll post some in the next couple of days, I took some pics before I started stripping everything out of it I should have enough of it back together tonight to take some more pictures.

[eagle23]

Yes, Welcome to the board.

BTW, how much you want for the tornado?? [j/k]

[neverfinished]

I posted a couple pictures but they are huge so here are some links instead.
How I brought it home
http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t...thcheese/1.jpg

The headliner, I'm 6'2" so the speakers had to go, unfortunately the mess under the speakers meant the whole headliner had to go too.
http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t...thcheese/5.jpg

The air horn
http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t...thcheese/4.jpg

The old door panel
http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t...hcheese/10.jpg

The truck as it sits now.
http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t...thcheese/6.jpg

from the back, no more faded tint or window stickers
http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t...thcheese/8.jpg

the door panel stripped and primed, this is temporary until I have the cash for new panels
http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t...thcheese/9.jpg

[boatpuller]

your on the right track.........that thing was "pimped".. you sure you wanna lose that chick magnet interior? that fabric stuff reminded me of an old grannies couch.

[neverfinished]

Originally Posted by boatpuller

your on the right track.........that thing was "pimped".. you sure you wanna lose that chick magnet interior? that fabric stuff reminded me of an old grannies couch.

Oh I'm sure that it needs to get out of there and that's exactly what I thought when I saw it. I checked the guy's living room for a couch that might be missing a cushion or two.

[85_SWB]

looks like a nice truck on the outside but the interior made me cry

[Srubydo1986]

nice looking truck. when you said shag carpet what came tio mind for me was that carpet that is striny and hangs down a bit like in chech amd chong. My dad 57 belair had blue shag on the dash and around the window before we removed it.

[killthewabbit]

I dunno, that thing was so cheesy it was almost cool. I would've grown a wicked moustache and some mutton chop sideburns and rocked it like it was for a few months. Maybe you should have added some Yosemite Sam ("back off") or chrome nekkid lady mudflaps.

[mrenj23]

I bet the PO was a truck driver

[neverfinished]

Originally Posted by mrenj23

I bet the PO was a truck driver

I was thinking that too, what with the air horn, visor and all the crazy interior. One funny custom touch that I forgot to mention was that someone had opened up some cheap matchbox type trucks and put light bulbs inside. At first I thought they were just screwed down but when I started taking them off I found the wires running out of them. When you turned the headlights the windshields on two of the trucks would light up. The other two took me a few minutes to figure out. The bulbs were blown so I had to trace the wire running to them, they were wired into the turn signals

[neverfinished]

Originally Posted by killthewabbit

I dunno, that thing was so cheesy it was almost cool. I would've grown a wicked moustache and some mutton chop sideburns and rocked it like it was for a few months. Maybe you should have added some Yosemite Sam ("back off") or chrome nekkid lady mudflaps.

It had the Yosemite Sam mud flaps but they looked like they came off of a tractor trailer, the two of them covered almost half of the rear end and nearly touched the road. Sam had been painted on after his original colors faded.

[benoit454]

Why spend so much on new door panels when you can dye thoose and turn out great. I mean they don't lok broken or busted to me. I took the ones out of our old 86 4x4 and dyed them with some cheapo plastikote vinly dye in gloss black and they turned out great. It didn't peel or flake off either. We ALWAYS have the window down and arm on top the door panels, never came off anywhere. I have pics if you are interested.

[neverfinished]

Originally Posted by benoit454

Why spend so much on new door panels when you can dye thoose and turn out great. I mean they don't lok broken or busted to me. I took the ones out of our old 86 4x4 and dyed them with some cheapo plastikote vinly dye in gloss black and they turned out great. It didn't peel or flake off either. We ALWAYS have the window down and arm on top the door panels, never came off anywhere. I have pics if you are interested.

They are covered in glue and pretty rough looking even after sanding. I suppose I could sand them down until they are smooth. Did you have to do any sanding on your panels?

I was thinking also about trying my hand at making some matching kick panels and door panels and wrapping them with black vinyl. Something simple not like what I pulled out..

[martinkh]

I thought redneck pimp was in!!!

[benoit454]

LMAo matchbox cars lighted up with the trucks lights?????

WTF!!!!!!!

LMAO.


Yea you might have to sand it down then. I didn't sand mine, they were just faded, so I wiped them off with grease and wax remover then sprayed them with the dye.

I think the vinyl would be nice. I wanted to do mine the same way, use some thin carpet like for speaker boxes or something, and do the kick panels, lower doors, and maybe the door panel or dash.

I wanna know how people do the dash in material without it wrinkleing up or whatever.

Was yours one piece covering the dash? or multiple ones seamed together? Was it wrinkled anywhere before you removed it?

If I know it won't wrinkly I'd remove mine, buy some carpet or vinyl, and do it. I just worry about a wrinkle and fadeing. I don't know what you could get that wouldn't fade.

I been thinking about making a post about covering dashes with material, so I just might so I can find out info and options.

[neverfinished]

Originally Posted by benoit454

LMAo matchbox cars lighted up with the trucks lights?????

WTF!!!!!!!

LMAO.


Yea you might have to sand it down then. I didn't sand mine, they were just faded, so I wiped them off with grease and wax remover then sprayed them with the dye.

I think the vinyl would be nice. I wanted to do mine the same way, use some thin carpet like for speaker boxes or something, and do the kick panels, lower doors, and maybe the door panel or dash.

I wanna know how people do the dash in material without it wrinkleing up or whatever.

Was yours one piece covering the dash? or multiple ones seamed together? Was it wrinkled anywhere before you removed it?

If I know it won't wrinkly I'd remove mine, buy some carpet or vinyl, and do it. I just worry about a wrinkle and fadeing. I don't know what you could get that wouldn't fade.

I been thinking about making a post about covering dashes with material, so I just might so I can find out info and options.

The couch cushion is still on the dash and it's one piece with foam under it. I'm holding off on pulling it out just yet in case they pulled the dash pad off when they put the fabric on. Once I pull it off I may make a template with it in case I want to put something a little more calm on the dash.

[68Stepbed]

You took Yosemite Sam off?!? What's wrong with you? All I can say is "BACK OFF"

[jeff_smith_0423_]

your original interior shots look like someone robbed a fabric warehouse at a conversion van company! other than your interior pimping, it looks like a pretty solid ride though!

[Mr79C10]

Turned out nice, what did you do with the "flame" dice from the steering colume?

[grinch4om]

um...what's up with the 68 in the garage?!

[neverfinished]

Originally Posted by grinch4om

um...what's up with the 68 in the garage?!

That is on a longer schedule. I'm stripping the body now, once that's done I'm going to put a new k-member in it and figure out what direction I'm going with the motor. It's almost drivable aside from the front end needing to be rebuilt. I figured instead of doing a disk brake conversion and rebuilding the existing suspension I'd update everything while I'm at it.

[Hoods69BadBowTie]

Awesome looking truck, glad to hear you dumped the fugly interior though. What all do you have planned for it?

[neverfinished]

Originally Posted by Hoods69BadBowTie

Awesome looking truck, glad to hear you dumped the fugly interior though. What all do you have planned for it?

I pulled the dash yesterday and stripped off two previous re-coverings and the factory vinyl and foam. The vinyl had a lot more crack than I expected. I rounded out some spots with body filler and I'm going to re-cover the dash.

Plans so far are, redo the interior, fix some minor body issues, put on a chrome front bumper and painted rear roll pan. Hopefully move the spare tire to under the bed and that's about it. Once that's all done I'm sure I'll find more to do.