'73 LWB. Project.. I don't know.. "rust bucket"

[mongoose]

But yeah.. It's pretty rusty to say that least =P

Decided to make a thread for it as I'm actually spending money on it now, and it's starting to take shape..

Pretty normal build, but this being my first truck.. it's a nice warm up.. Anyways, Plans call for a vortec headed small block, with a 60103 Voodoo in it, Trying to keep it nice and mild for a DD setup, backed by a th350 and a 12 bolt.. dropped on coys, cuz i'm cheap! and throw in lots of body work just for fun..

at the moment i'm just trying to find a way to make my cam work with the stock heads.. and i'm not winning =(.. interior is pretty stock, picked up some cumaro buckets for it, a mega shifter, a grant wheel, and some assorted gauges for some monitorings.

still need to figure out an fuel system and exhaust, so i can get on the road and i can drive my ranger off a cliff.. not lying.

but enough chat for now.. let's get to some pics..

The truck the day i got it.. beat up as hell.. but traded it for some parts that i wasn't using so not that bad of a deal.



Picked up this 350 for 250 bucks, came pretty much complete, q-jet and everything.. Just need to change the colour!



Found out that you can't run autometer lights in equus gauges.. So I had to go around it that hard way, oh well.. 5 minutes with a lathe and saved my self 100 bucks..



that's what's done so far it seems... hopefully be working on it daily now.. so keep tuned in for some more updates.. http://s103.photobucket.com/albums/m...oose/73%20c10/

and don't mind the dyno pic.. that was the last motor i was building.. that never got done =P

[mongoose]

this weeks update, not much as it was raining most of it.

got my shifter, and gauges put in, seats are half way in.. did some clean up in under the hood too...



need to get some medal tomorrow so i can start the basket on my cell...


has anyone else mounted their gauges under the radio like that? did you like it in the long run?

[2tons of fun]

you are going to plow te **** out of it with your knee/leg.

[flamingbig10]

the rust doesn't look to bad I've seen much worse

[MobSled]

Hey any recent work done to this truck??? I`m very interested in the progress of this LWB and whats gonna get done to it. So far so good...