After 15 years, it's MINE!!! My 1949 GMC

[cleanshaven84]

Hello everyone, just thought I would post my lastest project, my 1949 GMC pickup. I've actually known about this truck for nearly 15 years and have wanted it ever since. My friends dad bought it about 35 years ago and only drove it for a month before he sold it to my friends grandpa. He then drove it to where it sat for the next 35 years in the woods behind his house. When he parked it there wasn't a thing wrong with it except the fact the previous owner couldn't find the title. And now, fast forward to the present and this is what you have. I finally talked my friend into selling it to me for $300! This truck is 99% complete including a complete and original inline 6 and transmission. This thing is a beauty. Plan is to fix all the cancer spots,do a S10 chassis swap and replace the inline 6 with a 4.3L from a '90 Astro van if I can talk my friends grandpa into selling it to me. It'll be slow going getting started but I will keep ya'll updated as I start to tear it apart. Now on to the pics and there is a few of them. Enjoy.

Sitting in the woods ready to be restored.




On the trailer ready for it's new home




Original Inline 6


Even still had oil in the engine. Only a quart low, lol.


Interior after I cleaned out all the leaves and dirt


And this is why the interior is so rusted, self made sunroof. This was a rare option back in the day.