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Old 04-02-2007, 11:24 AM   #1
neverfinished
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Unpimping my ride

I recently bought a '73 c10 and spent the past few days unpimping it. What's the strangest/funniest customization you've run across in a truck that a PO installed.
Here's my list of things I pulled out of the truck so far.

1. Carpet, it was everywhere. The only metal in the truck not covered by carpet was the steering column and the lower dash. I'm not talking automotive carpet either most of it was shag. I left the carpet on the floor to be removed later and replaced with a molded carpet set. Now I have to scrape glue off 3/4 of the interior walls.

2. Speaker boxes only a midget could love, mounted directly above my head I was brushing them with my head the whole way home that and two boxes bolted to the headliner just looked bad. They had to go.

3. The headliner with more snaps than a tonneau cover and a scary overhead console. Once I got the speaker boxes down I realized I better take the rest of the headliner down too. The center console hung down farther than the speaker boxes and the shelf in it was so small I could barely put my hand inside. Once I got the console down I realized I better take the whole headliner out because the speaker boxes and console were all held on with 90 degree angle brackets screwed into blocks of 1x2.

4. An air horn. On the roof. It was a bit much and it's a good thing I took it down. Under one of the mounting pads was a lot of rust. Enough that I'm trying to figure out the best way to patch a roof without setting the insulation on fire.

5. Not really weird or pimped but I pulled the air cleaner to find THE TORNADO. I've only seen them on infomercials, now I own one. It's still on the truck for now but I can't help thinking that it probably does more choking of the motor than it does increasing air flow.
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