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Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Rathdrum, Idaho
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Do you have a vision for your truck?
Okay, maybe that's a little deep
![]() I bought my truck with the intention of using it as a daily driver and making it a "nice looking work truck". I still plan on putting power brakes and steering. I want to bag it but not for the reason most people do I have no intention of lowering it I want it for the ride comfort. However in the 8 months or so I have had it some things have changed. I decided early on to keep the 292 straight 6 and have already put an HEI, Clifford intake with 4 barrel and long tube headers. After that I had a 700r4 installed and I currently have a 6 lug posi 3.73 rearend sitting in my garage to replace my howling stock rear end soon. In order to drive it daily all seals, fluids and the belt were replaced. Some of my plans have changed, I no longer will install a newer silverado seat with integrated seat belts. I want my interior and exterior to look "period". So it may not be totally stock but anything visible from the outside or interior would have been available in'66 Looking over my list I guess have got a lot of major things done. I have been focused on little things now. I replaced the glove box and am building a custom gauge cluster for it. I like the stock blue but ever since I pushed that big Yellow Tonka ( you know the one!) around in my backyard dirt pile when I was 5 I have had an eye for bright yellow trucks. |
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Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: Fort Campbell, KY
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Re: Do you have a vision for your truck?
Great post! I'll contribute more when I'm not mobile. I will say i love your idea of keeping it period. Usually when I have visions while looking at my truck I've had too many wild turkeys and 7ups!
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Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: MKE WI
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Re: Do you have a vision for your truck?
I originally wanted something to drive and enjoy and just do a little work on....3 years, another motor and trans swap, a paintjob, new wheels, whole new interior later.....its a little more like what I had in my head
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But Found Her 25yrs Later!
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Re: Do you have a vision for your truck?
My vision is somewhere in the midst of all these
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Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Cambridge, Ontario, Canada
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Re: Do you have a vision for your truck?
hey lostmy65, can you tell me when this truck was featured in custom classic trucks? THis is exactly the stance/look that I have been envisioning, except mine would be all black.
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Re: Do you have a vision for your truck?
Vision? Yes, but I'm not sure that it's 20/20 all the time.
![]() I'd like to build my '66 into a reliable daily driver that keeps all of the original styling inside and out but drive like it's on rails, something I could autocross if I wanted. More for the driving feel than all out track performance though. I'm keeping the old paint/mild patina look outside but everything else will be detailed and restored. I don't want a show truck that I have to polish all the time and worry about fingerprints and dust. Park it anywhere, haul stuff, use it as a truck and enjoy it. Scuffs and dings just add character. ![]()
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Join Date: Jan 2009
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Re: Do you have a vision for your truck?
My vision changes every time I go on this sight.
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Join Date: Jan 2011
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Re: Do you have a vision for your truck?
Mine is something along these lines.....
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Re: Do you have a vision for your truck?
It always starts off the same with the "i'm going to get it to where I can drive it daily etc etc" But I have been the same way. Im about to start on a frame swap on my 65 short bed custom cab. My dad said that since I have it apart I should paint it. So my plan is to paint it out business colors which is a darker blue and white. We drill water wells here in kansas and my grandfather opened the business at 17 years old in 1935 and its been going since. Since my truck has a utility box, i plan on painting it our shop colors and putting out name on the side just because. But I dont have photoshop nor am I any good at it if I did so try to picture or dark blue as the main color and two toned cab with white and site inserts on the box where the orange is.
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Re: Do you have a vision for your truck?
the best thing to do is to figure out your vision before you start spending money... plan changes can get expensive.
I have a pretty solid vision for what I want on each of mine, now I need to visualize winning the lottery !!! ![]()
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Location: Monroe,Iowa
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Re: Do you have a vision for your truck?
I just want to make mine a decent DD,along the lines of a Brand New 64 with modern updates.
So far ,rebuilt 350,700R4,rebuilt rear end,new brake's and lines,steering box This winter body work-rust repair,Ac.interior work Next year I'll work on the Stepside box=proably replace the whole thing as it's JUNK Like it's been said before" You eat a elephant one bite at a time" |
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Independence,KS
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Re: Do you have a vision for your truck?
My project also started out as a 'little clean up and daily driver" Somewhere along the way that train went off the tracks.
Two engine ideas, electronic fuel injection,Phantom Key ignition, full smooth firewall, etc, etc......... I've come to realize my vision needs an eye exam! |
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Re: Do you have a vision for your truck?
Somewhere on this site in one of the threads there is a rendering of a 60-61 c10 that has been lowered and is painted a solid black.
It has some hude meats on the back and shiny deep dish wheels with a gold ring on the outside. Cant find the picture or I would post it for you to see "my vision" I had been thinkind along a different look completely until I say that rendering and it made me stop dead in my tracks. some day maybe.......
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But Found Her 25yrs Later!
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Re: Do you have a vision for your truck?
Here's McCoy's Vision
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Re: Do you have a vision for your truck?
Yeah baby I LOVE this truck and slowly am converting my 64 step to look somewhat similar.
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Re: Do you have a vision for your truck?
yep. I wanted to drive an old truck without all the common problems of driving an old truck. I think I am almost there.
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Re: Do you have a vision for your truck?
Flat black paint, lime green on the roof and wheels. Tubbed loud nasty power brakes comfy ride nice interior close the doors with a finger. AC!
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Join Date: Feb 2007
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Re: Do you have a vision for your truck?
It took many years for a clear plan to evolve, but I finally decided I wanted my truck to have everything on it that I lusted for back in the early-mid 60’s before my first driver’s license, money, or girls. I grew up on Car Craft and Rod & Custom magazines, and had plenty of time to ogle and envy the gassers and other popular custom and hot rod parts and trends. Much of my time was spent building model cars and dreaming of the cool car I’d have when I got older and could afford one. With my current truck I think I finally achieved my goal.
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Re: Do you have a vision for your truck?
Well, mine started off as a daily driver, then, the more I sanded, the more cover ups I found. The bed was totally shot, more patching than I care to count and all of the bushings needed replacing.
So, now, it's off the frame. It will be a bright yellow flatbed with every nut and bolt gone over, the seat and seatbelts from a 94 silverado, vinyl door panels and headliner, smoothies or rallies. I figured if I had to redo everything, might as well make it a really nice looking work truck. ![]() Steven
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