New guy from Idaho

[spudtruck]

Hey just thought I would pop in and say Hello. My name is Kevin. I'm from southeast Idaho. I love old Chevy trucks. I just picked up last month a 66 lwb. I had some buddies in high school that had them and we had a lot of fun. I have been really partial to this body style and when I had the chance to pick this one up I jumped on it. The kid at the local parts house told me had a 66 to sell and if I knew anyone that wanted one I told him right then that I didn't know of anyone. I already had a project going on and really didn't it think it was too great of a truck. After a few days of it gnawing on me I decided to go look at it with my brother. I looked at it and decided I would have to have it. It supposedly had a 350 with recent rebuild but there was a grinding noise in the front of the engine and the truck wasn't getting any fuel to the carb. It had been sitting inside a shed for the past 3 years and the mice had gotten to the interior and it was all taken out. Had that great mice piss smell. But someone had put a lot of work into it some time ago. It had the stainless strips and oak in the bed, but the varnish is starting to peel on the wood. It had the chrome bumpers and grill that were in great shape. The body had and older paint job that will have to be redone but it was black and that is my favorite color. So we made the deal at 700 bucks and my brother towed me home. I ended up sitting on a folding chair cuz there was no interior. What a crappy ride home, I had to keep my neck bent sideways to see out the windshield.

After a couple of days of work I put in a new fuel lines from the under bed tank and a new harmonic balancer she runs like a champ. I checked on the heads they ended up being camelback fuelies so I was tickled to death. I'm hoping to do a budget build on it where money is tight with child support and crap like that. I'm excited to be a part of the forum and have already learned a lot from you guys. As soon as I figure out the how to post pics I'll put some up. Thanks