Project "Grandpa gets a transplant"

[biohazardbill]

Some may have already seen pictures in the regular forums but now this bad boy is going to get some changes.

What we have here is a very solid 1967 step side that I purchased recently from a 91 year old man up the street from me. Have seen the truck sit under his carport for several years and always wondered what he was going to do with it. Finally it came up for sale and I got it. He sold it because he said he could not handle the manual steering anymore.

Plans were originally to keep it as it with the 6 cylinder (not original motor, PO said it was from a 72). It needed the carb rebuilt and a few other things. Mind you I am not a big fan of 6 cylinders but to keep the truck original and get her on the road quickly we were just going to fix these few items. Wife and I decided on a dollar amount to get her running as is, and if we hit that amount and still was not road worthy we would swap in a v8. Wel after rebuilding the carb, plugs, wires, rotor, points, cap the truck still was not running right, noticed a leak from a couple freeze plugs has an exhaust manifold leak ant the fuel pump just started leaking as well. If we could get rid of this miss it has, might have considered fixing those things but we have reached our dollar limit, truck isnt running right... so out the I6 will come. I know some of you will hate this decision etc.. but again it isnt the original motor.. so here comes the swap.

So plans for the truck as of now.

Keep body, paint etc as is.

Swap in big block/700r4

Lower it, not sure how much or what direction at this point.

At this minute the truck sits as you see below. As soon as it warms up a bit, headed outside to remove the I6 and trans