68 LONG BED to SB Fleet

[blakeaz33]

Decided to start my own build thread - starting with a 68 C10 long bed original paint. This truck was on a peach orchard in Utah and had a topper on it for most of the time. The bed floor is in great shape since it only had peach crates loaded and unloaded so no major dents - just a few scrapes and hickies. I'm planning on fixing the extremely minimal rust and converting this truck to a short bed. Ultimately will be factory red with bags but I'm doing this one in stages. I've done other projects all at once, media blast, rotisserie, etc, and a couple of years of work. I plan on driving this and enjoying it while I work on it - the rust and short bed conversion will be all at once and the rest one at a time. My grandfather had a 68 that I started driving in high school, he didn't buy it new but he owned it since it was a year or two old - when this truck is done it will represent that truck if I was still fortunate enough to own it today.