Project Lazy Susan

[dunc018]

First I would like to thank everyone who has posted information on this forum, I learn something new on here every day.

This is a project that my father and I have been working on. I have named it Lazy Susan because we certainly haven't been in any hurry to get it done and sometimes I feel like it has us spinning in circles.

Truck was pulled from a field, the tag on it expired in 2000. It is a 69 C10 Stepside I6 3OTT. We bought the truck for $750.

We are going to be dropping it a bit, adding a small block and TH 400, and doing a little bodywork on it. We will most likely be going with a fleetside bed. I was looking forward to making the stepside, but pretty much every part of the bed we have is bad.

Here it is Susan after we rescued her out of the field:






Once we got it into the garage, we tore it down to bare frame. Grinders, air chisel, and a torch made it much easier:





After tearing it down, the frame and other larger parts went for blasting: