1-ton Project

[Konk]

I figured I'd start a progress thread on my old truck since I'm starting to make some progress on it. First, a little history;


I use to work for a company (quit after graduating community college and going into to a 4-year universtiy) that used this truck as their main welding vehicle. For decades it mainly sat in a parking lot moving back and forth between our various shops spread out about 4miles or so from each other. A few years ago the welder blew up and the truck just sat. I picked it up for $700 as a project and hopefully maybe even make a buck off of it. It's a 1971 1-ton with a 350. It runs good, but needs work.



Here is what it looked like when I got it:







Here it is now with new front end, and thats about as far as I've gotten besides some brake stuff and a few loose ends.















Going to paint the inside white or black (door panels are blue and brown) and the seat black. Going to re-paint the bed black, but still deciding on the body color. I was thinking flat-black, but that color is everywhere these days. Currently I'm leaning towards a flat-red. Way too much truck for me, but it's pretty fun driving, espicially around campus trying to find a parking spot that I can fit it in.