Looks like it's a "build"...1972 Stepside.

[In The Ten Ring]

I still don't think of this as a "build" since I'm mainly just getting the thing (properly) ready to be driven again but it's really getting involved....so why not document it on here? Maybe it'll motivate someone.

My truck started it's life being assembled in Flint, MI and my dad bought it off a new car lot in his small town on the spot in 1972, after haggling, for $2350 dollars and adding that to the house loan so he could pay cash. He drove it for years to and from his nearby coal mine job but has always complained of it's TOTAL inability to "go in the snow." He used it as a daily driver and family work truck and it has been involved in some really cool jobs.

He had it bondo'ed and repainted the original color in 1991 and I drove it in high school and some in college. It has the original 250 inline, 4:11 posi-traction, and 3 on the column manual. For a long time I wanted to change those but anymore, nah.....I might go to a 3:73 rear end but keep the posi trac just to get better gas mileage.

The truck sat in dad's garage for 10 years but he got it back on the road for me when I was working out of state. It didn't seem to run right though and I parked it for 7 more years in my garage....last June I was talking to my dad about his old cars and decided to get busy.

So far I have removed the gas tank for refurbishing (may get a new tank anyway), blown out all the fuel and vent lines with compressed air, removed all fuel and vent hoses, and now I am working on the drum brakes as they were frozen. I hope to finish those this week and then replace all the frame to cab bushings and put in a new radiator, thermostat, and water pump. The carb will be rebuilt, brakes bleed, all belts and rubber replaced, all new tires, and put on those awesome OEM bumper guards I bought off a guy on here.

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