New to the Forum - '67 Sub owner

[Alex V.]

Hello, all. My name is Alex and I'm the new-ish owner of a '67 C10 Suburban. I've owned it for about 2 years (just recently started DD'ing it), but it's been in the family since the mid 80's when my dad bought it. I grew up in the Suburban and have been from Oregon, to Galveston, TX, to New York in it, so it wasn't a hard decision to buy it from dad when he needed to sell it.

Anyway, it's a '67 C10, 350/NP435 4-speed, PS/PB, Custom trim, and HD springs, shocks, radiator, alternator, etc. - whoever bought this new ordered nearly every HD/towing option for a 1/2 ton, including the West Coast Jr. mirrors (although they parted ways with the truck at some point). The PS and PB appear to have been installed by the PO, as well as the NP435, and it was originally a 327 (it went through 3 of those in the last 320,000 miles :p ) but is currently a '79 350 that is only there because I got a decent deal on it and didn't want to hold out for a correctly-dated 327.

Mechanically, it's sat dormant since late 2001 so it will be a continuing project to bring it back to perfect operating condition, but I'm driving it 32 miles round-trip to work every day and it's doing fine. Cosmetically, it's fairly straight (still has most of the original paint with only one mentionable dent) but rust has taken its toll. I'm going to get the mechanical side of the ol' girl to 95% + before I tackle the bodywork.

And as for the "build" plans, everything is going back to 99% original, save for the 4-speed and PS/PB - I may even keep the points distributor. My hope, in the next few years, is for it to be a 9-out-of-10-condition daily driver.

Here's a few pics of it:






Last year as I finished up detailing the engine compartment:


I'm looking forward to the wealth of information here and seeing everybody else's rigs!

Alex