Another - 'It's Alive' post - 1970 LWB for my Dad.

[lks dcvn]

Just got done starting up the truck for the first time since the motor/trans install. It will need some brake work before I can do anything with it, but it started right up after I put some gas in the tank and then poured a bit in the carb...

Took me a few months to get this far - but it has been a good project. Long story made short - in December 2007 a guy in Detroit put up a CL ad for a project truck he could no longer keep - and mentioned no rust...I like everybody else was skeptical - but decided to check it out anyway. The most solid truck I have seen in these parts was in his garage (it has some surface rust and a few bubbles here and there, but it is solid for Ohio/Michigan) - after BS'ing for a few mins - he said - just make me an offer - I need it gone...

Having no interest in a project - I left without giving an offer - but left my number and told him my price if he got that low - - he called me before I got home and said that he would take my offering price if I was interested. The truck was in my driveway a week or so later...I figured I would give it to my Dad since he is always borrowing my other trucks to haul something or another...

I still need to align the panels a bit on the front end, get the gauges all hooked up, replace the exhaust and clean up the body a bit from surface rust and dings here and there.

Once the gremlins are worked out and it gets tuned - I will have either my buddy or my neighbor paint it (probably going white) and then swap over to the hurricane rims/tires that are sitting in my garage.

Then it is going to my Dad...hopefully he enjoys it. If he doesn't want it - I will be selling my parts hauler and keeping this one -

Here are some pix...along the way.

First day I got it...
Cleaning up the Frame
Motor Swap Complete
Putting it back together
Now it runs...