1972 "I'll finish this one, I promise" Project

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Might be starting this early, but I am bored at work and still have 2 weeks left. While I'm at work I like to kill time on Craigslist. I'm always browsing for 55-59, 60-66 & of course 67-72 trucks. After selling a 1965 SWB fleetside just to make a little profit, I've been kicking myself in the ass & wanting another C10. But to be honest, that body style wasn't my favorite. Knew I always wanted the 67-72 body style. So I'm looking through all these trucks that have crazy asking prices & thinking I'm not going to find an old beater that I want. Low and behold I found one sitting in South Louisiana, about a 3hr drive from my house. It beat up & rusty, but for the price I paid... I'll take it.

Pictures from the Ad




Being that I'm still offshore I had my cousin call him and make the deal. We settle on the price and start the waiting the game. The seller nor my cousin could work out a date for him to go get it. So after waiting a week, worrying if the guy is going to sell it out from underneath me or something else might go wrong. Finally I get a message telling me he is going to pick it up! I was still clueless about the truck really. He goes to pull the winch cable out and the guy asked what was he doing? The seller jumped in it and fired the old straight 6 right up and drove it on the trailer.

Pictures from Picking it Up




And what you are seeing, is what I have seen of the truck as I'm still at work. But that hasn't stopped me from getting a build plan together and start ordering parts. I knew I wanted Porterbuilt from the first time I seen Old Aux, Hazel & some others. So I sent Nate an email asking for complete front/rear extreme dropmembers. I get a quick response back, but at the end of the email its says "10 weeks out". My heart sank again. I was thinking I'm going to get home, start taking it down and installing those awesome parts. After talking with my suspension guy he said he was been wanting to build his own DM's and that we can put it on the frame table & start fabricating. Well his timeline wasn't much better either & deep down I still wanted Porterbuilt. So I messaged and couple venders on here and they didn't have any in stock either. Which brings to where I'm at now. I sent Travis from AZProPerfor a message and he has some on order like everybody else, but his delivery date is a lot better than anyone else and his has 2 that wasn't accounted for yet. Being pleased with that, I get two invoices that says PAID on full Porterbuilt! I still have the misc front parts to buy, but I wanted to knock out the fabricated parts while they where there.



Goals for the truck. Shorten it to SWB, 350SB etc, etc... My list goes on. But short plan is to have a rolling chassis by Last Resort this year in October.