Project "Murdock"- '67 SWB GMC

[Dingfodgy]

I've been active on this site for awhile now and have been tinkering with my project, sooooooo I thought I might start a Build Thread and get some ideas & feedback from ya'll.

It's a fairly simple plan, but the excecution is going to take some time to work through. The truck already had the drop spindles in the front and what appears to be lowered leaf springs in the back. Needless to say it's gonna get bagged. If $$$ allows a drop member would be nice. Out back the leafs are gonna get tossed for a triangulated 4-link, also on bags.
For now I'm going to do a simple re-ring and bearing on the OG 283, but the factory NP435 w/ trashed syncro's in 3rd and 4th will get swapped out for a 5-speed of undetermined source (T5, TKO, NV3500).

The body...now that is where the work is gonna take place. This thing sat in a field (in the soggy NW) for about 5-7 years before I got ahold of it. As you can imagine everything south of the seat tracks is rife with rust, rot and general sheet metal misery. But the fun doesn't stop there. The roof also rusted through most of the drip rail and in the front corners by the windshield. I've since spent a great deal of time cutting out the rotten gutters and have now gone to the shaved drip rail look. Once all the rust mitigation is done, then I'll start the mods. I've got a couple ideas for a completely new and custom dash that will stay under wraps until I get it close to done. Of course smoothing and caping the firewall will be involved and probably some manner of one-off inner fenders and radiator cover. Roll pan for sure out back and I'm knockin' around some ideas for a front bumper.

Enough talkin'- here's the photographic story so far.....

The day I brought it home.