Thrash 2007: Will I drive it to the board meet?

[Alvin]

Here's the plan: Drive my '68 to the board meet in July.

Here's the problem: It's over 500 miles one way, and my truck is in a thousand pieces in my garage!



So I've started this thread to document what I'm calling "Thrash 2007", which is an effort to get my truck roadworthy in time to make this trip.

Here's what has been done so far:

• Swapped the body to a coil spring frame
• Installed front air ride
• ECE drop spindles
• ECE quick-ratio steering box
• All new control arm shafts, ball joints, tie rods, pitman arm, idler arm, sway bar bushings, etc.
• Installed a c-notch
• Tore everything else apart

Now this is a list of what is waiting on the shelf:

• The rest of the air ride system: rear bags, tanks, valves, engine driven compressor, digital air gauge, water trap, etc.
• Cross-drilled and slotted front rotors
• 18 circuit painless wiring harness
• Full stainless steel brake lines
• ECE shock relocators
• ECE Super panhard bar
• ECE rear frame crossmember
• Fuellcellguy fuel cell
• 350/TH350 combo I bought from Rage'nRat a couple years ago (might wind up with vortec heads and headers, have to see what the internals are like [compression ratio, etc.])
• New rubber body mounts
• New engine mounts
• New tranny mount
• Covan's classic dash bezel
• Black carpet kit

So stay tuned. It's gonna be interesting! I'll also be taking plenty of pictures, not to do a step-by-step necessarily, but just to keep it interesting.