Decided not to Sell the truck

[Slonaker]

I have decided not to sell the truck. My wife knows how important the truck is to me, and wanted me to keep it if we could come up with a plan that made it feasible. She and I sat down about a week ago and came up with a plan that lets me sell our third car and a scooter, buy an economical daily driver, and keep the truck as a third/backup vehicle.

Unfortunately it needs to take on a more utilitarian role now, and will be lifted back up to stock height, but it is better than having to part with it. Most of my plans for it will be thrown out. From this point on it will be just a stock truck. No more 700R4 plan, paint jobs, or any of that kind of stuff. It will just be a clean old pickup that doesn't get used often.

I'm going to pull the 12,000 mile 350 crate engine from it and put it in the '37 coupe. The coupe was my father's, and will never be sold, so It should have the better of the two engines. The coupe 350 will get cleaned up, sealed up, and painted before it goes into the truck.

I also need to put a heater core, rebuilt column, and a new exhaust setup on the truck. From that point, I will just be doing whatever I need to do to keep it going.

At least I get to keep it...

Slonaker