67 C10 lwb to K10 swb conversion project

[68 TT]

I have been holding off doing much more to the 67 4x4 conversion project in hope that I would find a better cab, preferably an A/C cab, to build off of and save me a ton of rust repair.

Last night I scored a 69 C20 factory A/C cab & matching front clip on the original C20 chassis that someone had started converting to a 4x4 with period correct front suspension parts. It also has a fair condition 67 bed on it too. Much less rust repair needed vs. my 67 cab and I get A/C too. It will still need rockers and inner rockers but far less floor, kick panel & support structure repair. Grand total $160 delivered to my house.

Only things it is missing other than drivetrain are doors, windshield, gauge cluster and a tail gate. All of that can come off my 67 so no big deal.

The 69 C20 still has the truck arm rear suspension but has the 67-70 vintage front axle & leaf spring setup retrofit to it. I will get a closer look at it in a couple weeks and see if I want to work with this chassis instead or do a body swap onto the modified square body chassis.

It looks like it will sit pretty level with the 4x4 front suspension and C20 truck arm rear suspension. I wondered if this would work at all when I was thinking about the 67 K10 conversion project. I don't plan on off road use at all with this thing just bad weather unplowed roads so the truck arm rear suspension may stay.

I could get the 69 on the road rather easily compared to all the work left on the 67. I may just use the 67 cab as a template and test platform for some of the retrofit projects I have been coming up with and use the stock column shift auto steering column and stock dash mounted ignition & wiper switches that are present in the 69 so the project hits the road sooner.