My 63 Longbed C10

[Sam63c10]

Well picked this truck up about 12 months ago, wasnt sure if it was for me but ive fallen in love, Truck came from bakersfield in California, and was shipped over to the uk by an importer. I spotted it on ebay and a deal was done.
here's how i bought it (only photo i saved from the ebay listing).

I bought it blind but was pleseantly suprised when it turned up. Its a nice solid truck, plenty of patina but no rot, has the 292 inline 6 and the overdrive 3 on the tree. Id love to find out what this truck has been doing all its life.
First thing i did was fix a few things, emergency brake, fuel sender, blowing manifold gasket, new window weather strips, and swapped the wheels over to some 15x10 steels with babymoons



Drove around in it for the summer without any major issues, a local guy who makes surf boards borrowed it for a photoshoot


Decided to take it off the road for our wet British winter, too much salt on the roads and constant damp conditions wouldnt of been kind to the old girl
have a few jobs planned over the next few months,
1) Replace the rotten bed wood.
2) Paint up the chassis
3) Replace Cab mounts and Trailing Arm Bushings
4) Fit a CPP deluxe lowering kit 5'' 3'' drop shocks springs and tarck bar
5)Get the front wheels narrowed, and get the wheels painted to match the roof
6) Replace windshield and back window gaskets
7) Buff bodywork
8) Repair radio

As of yet i have done the Radio, Tuner was damaged so have wired it to run off an aux lead so i can listen to my ipod!

Started work on the bedwood and got the bed removed. All but 4 of the bed strip bolts came undone, still cant get over the condition of everything, chassis still has its black paint and cross rails look like NOS after a clean up.




cleaned up the chassis and started to get some paint on

Looking forward to getting this thing back together and back on the road for the summer.
Thanks to all you who Contribute to the forum, there is a vast wealth of infomation and knowledge that has helped me out no end already.

[Warrens69GMC]

looking good!

[DPowers]

Very nice- congrats.

[Captainfab]

Nice work

[Katrina/10]

Looks like it's found a good home.

[Sam63c10]

Had a busy month working on the Truck,
Started to clean up the dog dish caps, chrome is pretty good under the crud, has taken about 4 hours polishing per cap.



And trial fitted on the new wheels

The CPP Kit turned up for the suspension 5-3 drop, cut a half coil off up front until my drop spindles show up.

My Dad helped me out machining and fitting the bedwood




And managed to get the bed lifted back on

Its even looking ike i may be able to keep the 10inch wheels on the back

[Clyde65]

Nicely done!

[Palf70Step]

Very Nice

[ChrisV]

Looking great

[Sam63c10]

Thanks for the kind comments, finished up a few jobs and got her out in the fresh air today.



not sure wether or not to repaint the white stripe the same color as the wheels??

[2bo.c10]

Great work! Really enjoyed reading / seeing this thread!!

[Robert Haas]

Nice Patina,

Never seen a bed assembled vertical. That is one way to not have to get under it. Clever

[DPowers]

Nice work on the bed and caps. Are you required to have a rear bumper there?

[Sam63c10]

Originally Posted by DPowers

Nice work on the bed and caps. Are you required to have a rear bumper there?

Thanks, and no requirement by law, but at the time of the pictures was waiting for the new bumper to arrive, all fitted now, and very happy with the result



Have just parked the truck up for the winter,

Over the next few months i have some plans for the truck, including fitting drop spindles/ disc brakes, painting the engine bay, and front half of chassis and am also in the process of rebuildng a 283 engine to go in the truck.

A friend of mine did a photoshop of the truck, adding some bigger wheels and lowering the ride height some more, got to say i like the look

[jchav62]

Very cool '63. Nice work...

[LostMy65]

Great looking truck.