Introducing myself

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Hope I am in the right forum for this. I have been lurking around on the forum for a while now. You guys seem like an awesome group and I have learned an incredible amount from here and put much of it into use. What a great site!

Anyway, my name is Keith. I live in the Dallas TX area with my wife and two children. This truck is actually my daughter's truck. She is 16 and really like 67-72 C-10's. I actually tried to convince her to consider a 60-66 but she definitely wanted a 67-72. Furthermore, she prefers long beds over short beds. Couldn't really complain about that too much as I was able to find a much better deal on a lwb vs swb. Her name is Daisy, and she has sure put her fair share of elbow grease and time into this truck to help me get it to where it is today.

Now about the truck. It is a 1970 with a sbc 350 and powerglide trans. I plan to change the transmission to a th350 or maybe even something with OD if budget allows. We have done quite a bit of work on it already. First we completely re-built the brakes, everything from rubber lines, cylinders, drum kits, etc. We then installed a power brake booster and new master. Next, we installed power steering. We pulled the original bench seat and put in bucket seats from a 06 silverado, POR-15'd the inside of the cab floors, put sound deadener down, and new carpet. We also put rally's on the truck after doing a 2/4 spring drop with new shocks and relocaters. We are in the process of installing a front sway bar and installing new trailing arms because the existing arms are rusted pretty bad by the rear springs.

Here are some pics. The first one is how the truck looked when we first got it. Well except that we pulled the bed because it was rusted beyond repair. The others are either current or fairly current.

Hope you guys enjoy them. I am open to any suggestions. Our goal from here is to replace the cab corners and rockers and then add a vintage air a/c. Again, at least a th350 and perhaps a 700r4.