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[greyghost86]

Hey guys,
New to the forum and just wanted to introduce myself. I'm 24 years old from Cullman, AL. The square bodies are my favorite!! I have just started the rebirth of the Grey Ghost,that is the family jewels..lol. Its a charcoal grey 86 custom deluxe, that my dad bought new. The truck has 469000 miles on it and still kicking. It looks rough but who cares, its a family project with my dad, brother, and me. Trying to upload pics..if it doesn't work I may need a little help...Cant wait to meet and talk with everyone on here.. Thanks for a great forum,
Buddy Anderson

[flamingbig10]

welcome to board, I use photo bucket to upload pics
http://photobucket.com/

[greyghost86]

Thanks Flaming, gonna try to get some pics up to share..

[dbmx66]

welcome to the forum. 469000? jesus man. how much is that thing driven? haha

[greyghost86]

I hear ya... Yeah I know thats alot but when you add up all the trips and family members thats been in there it kinda makes sense... Two motors and three transmissions kept her going.

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[flamingbig10]

doesn't look all that bad when I started on my truck it looked worse, whats your plans for it

[greyghost86]

Well not sure yet on the total drop yet but its going to be low, hand built 4 link rear suspension built by me, roll pan, paint work original charcoal color maybe two tone, bucket seats . Drivetrain will be a 6.0 liter LS w/cam and headers to start then will be stroked and big compression, looking for 500hp to the wheels when finished. 20x8.5s on the front and 20x10s on the rear. It make take some time because everything will be done by me except for spraying the color...

[silvereagle07]

Welcome greyghost86! You'll will find alot of info and help on this site when needed. You should be able to get 500hp easy from a 6.0L.

[andrewmp6]

Good luck with it with a truck with that many miles a lot of stuff on it are shot like ball joints the steering linkage etc etc.Get ready to dig deep but its worth it tho.

[JohnC]

Welcome to the forums. Looks like a nice solid truck there.

[TwoFiftyShifter]

Sounds like a sick plan for an already solid truck. Keep us posted for sure...

[nlped]

Sounds like you have a pretty good plan, neighbor. Solid starting point. My last squarebody (an '86) was named the Grey Goose, so I kinda dig the name. My '87 was named by my then 9 year old daughter, Bob, so it didn't end up with quite the cool name, but oh well.

[greyghost86]

Thanks everyone! All new front suspension is a must. The saddest part of starting the build was I drug it out of the hole at my parents house and put it on the trailer got home put a battery and some trans fluid in it and it cranked on the first try. So I decided it was only right to drive it one last time, after three years of sitting it was surprising, drove like I always remembered.

I guess I should start a build thread with the other pics as progress is made..