Project 65 Daily Driver

[JGross]

My current car is six years old now and I was thinking that in three to four years I’ll be needing to get a new car to drive to work. Well I hate car payments and I wanted my next car to be a truck. Even if I bought a used truck with low miles it would cost me $10K. So I had this bight idea, Build A Truck, if I did it right I could totally recondition a classic truck over three to four year and spend less that $10K and when I was done I would have a reliable truck I could drive every day and I wouldn’t be driving the same truck as every third person on the road. Well 30 years ago (When I was 16) my farther and I put a 427 big block in a 66 stepside so I when I started looking for a project truck I naturally favored the 4-5-6 Chevys. I found this 65 SWB fleetside and the price was right so here we go!!!!

This is day it arrived



The PO had installed a 350 and a TH400 auto trans



Today the top came off