Finally Got My Dream Truck!!! & It's a GMC

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First off I need to say that I have THE COOLEST girlfriend ever!!!!! I told her if I buy this truck, I wouldn't be able to do anything for her on her birthday, which is the 30th of this month.

Ever since I had to get rid of my 71 Chevy truck, I kinda brainstormed and figured out what I would really want to replace it with. The criteria would be 2wd, GMC with the big V6 (always wanted a big V6) and it would have to be a 60-72. Thursday I found such a truck!!!

It's a 1960 GMC 1/2ton, 2wd, 305 V6, 3 on the tree, and it has some really rare features as a bonus. It's got the chrome grill, bumper, side trim, window trim, and the trim on the back of the cab.

The two issues I have to deal with now is getting it to run and the rear wheels are locked up....I broke my come-a-long and bent the handle it to an L getting the truck on the trailer. The engine was last ran a week ago and when it turns over I can hear it fire a couple times. I think I'm fighting bad gas and maybe fouled plugs...gonna check the ignition system tomorrow.

Here's the pics:

Loaded on the trailer...took me 3 hours to get it loaded up.


Sitting in my driveway after my girlfriend gave it a bath.



The engine.


The Dash.


Anyone seen this before. Its for the windsheild wipers and is in really good shape.


Anyone seen this before and can tell me about it. It's hooked up to the coil and says its a capacitance discharge system.


Now for the really cool part, the truck has 159K original miles with maintenance records to confirm that. There is a sheet the the previous owner who sold it to the guy I bought the truck from started that has all the maintenance done to it all the way back to 1969. It even came with a GMC service manual and the origianl keys (I think) too. We were told the truck is from Yakima and was used as a farm truck in a plum orchard.

The truck has a lot of surface rust inside and out on top of the typical rust found on this bodystyle of truck. I'm gonna stock up on CLR and green scrubbies and go to town on it. The guy I bought it from purchased the truck in 1984 and drove it off an on until 1997. He then just parked it in his driveway and would run it every now and then. The last time it was tabbed was 1997. He decided to sell it because he was no longer able to really work on it...I think he was glad I bought it...I told him about my 63 4x4 project.

Also, this is the first GMC I have ever owned!

My plans are to clean it up, make it reliable, and drive it.

Let me know what you think!!! Thanks!