67 C10 lwb to K10 swb conversion project

[68 TT]

This project started out as a CL search for a set of more daily driver friendly geared axles for my 78 K20 that had 5.13 gears installed by the original owner.

What I ended up with was a 74 K10 rolling chassis with cab and an 84 K5 roller. Both bodies were gutted & very rough and the K10 was very cancered out but I now have two 4x4 chassis and two sets of axles with brakes and two sets of wheels & tires.

After considering repairing the rust on the 74 cab and building up another 4x4 truck rather than completely tearing down my 78 and making it into something completely different than it came from the factory I decided I should resurrect my old 67 C10 lwb truck as a 4x4 and convert it to a short bed while I was at it.

The 67 C10 got 90% turned into a truck bed trailer a few years ago but I never finished the job as life got in the way and I needed to buy a bigger MIG welder to do it right. I did not get rid of any of the other parts from the 67 C10 purely for the lack of time to sort through it all and figure out what was worth trying to sell off.

As a 2-wd vehicle the 67 C10 is pretty worthless half the year where I live due to the fact that the county has only plowed our street three times in the past 20 years and you have to climb a steep grade up to a stop sign just to get out of my neighborhood.

I have seen a few 67-72 trucks put onto square body 4x4 frames before so it was a pretty easy decision to take my complete 67 C10 lwb truck and put the body onto one of the square body 4x4 chassis.

My first instinct was to put it onto the K5 chassis and make it an ultra short bed truck but the K5 chassis is too different from a truck chassis and it would require a substantial body lift just to get the bed on.

Here is what I started with.