New guy from NC (Warning: Lots of pics)

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Well I am a new guy from Cleveland NC, but currently a Mechanical Engineering student at NCSU in Raleigh. Grew up around old Chevys my entire life. Figured I would join here to get some ideas for the build up of my trucks after I get out of school. I recently acquired a 78 K30 from my fire department and have some plans for it, and I also recently got a line on my great grandpa's old 68 C10 so with a little luck I may be able to pick that up in the next few years and turn it into a project.

First off my 78 K30. It has been the brush truck for our volunteer fire dept for as long as I can remember, and was finally retired last year. Has 70k original miles, 350, sm465 4 speed, 205, 4.10 gears. I would like to eventually swap out the 350 for a big block, possibly an 88-95 TBI, and a NV4500 with overdrive to make it a capable driver and tow machine.

Old school floor mats that have been in there forever.

Pic I tweaked a bit, thought it looked pretty good.

Even taught my girlfriend how to drive stick in this one.

Since these pictures the 30 year old decals (actually painted on) have been removed, and the doors repainted where there was a little rust patch in the corner where a drain hole was plugged. The wheels have been replaced with 16s off an 2001 Dodge (which I was surprised to see that they have about .75" more backspacing, which will allow for larger tires on the rear without needing spacers), 32" radials, versus the tiny 28" tires that were on it in these pictures, and chrome simulators. Hopefully soon it will get chrome front/rear bumpers, light bar removed, bed rails removed, and slowly restored to a weekend driver/tow pig.

In case you are interested, this is what it was replaced with

[IMG]http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f43/GCncsuH...

Nice, but just doesn't have the same rugged appeal.

Now then my daily driver, a 2003 GMC Sierra 2500HD CCLB Duramax/Allison 2wd. Has a hypertech power programmer, 5" exhaust, leveled with 35s on Hummer H2 wheels. I raised the front bumper 2" to get rid of the ugly black HD spacer, and converted it to the Denali headlights.