My '79 Stepside - Introduction

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I love square body stepsides, and I love inline sixes for their simplicity, and I found one last weekend on a man cave forum and it is a true farm truck, I have the plates to prove it!

It has almost zero body damage and a basic interior but the gem of it is that it is all original and unmolested although not wonderfully maintained.

It has the dreaded integrated head inline 6 with a three on the tree but it runs like a bat out of hell and half the vacuum lines are disconnected! It really is a strong engine and also since this little sweetheart has power brakes, power steering AND the dealer add-on AC, I am going to keep it with the existing engine. It runs awesome and the brackets are different for the regular 250 inline so why change if it ain't broke. The integrated head also comes with a 2BBL and a factory header so that's nice.

The only thing I "need" to do to it is straighten out the vacuum lines and fix a tail light, but I plan to put new wheels and tires on it and restore the interior too along with buffing out the paint. I am not looking to do a show truck, just a cool looking cruiser that is still used as a real truck. Haven't decided if I want to go street with Cragars and 275/60s all the way around or go with off road tires, I like both equally.

I attached two photos, one of the engine and the other is from the car wash, shiny because it is still wet... but it sure looks good like that. Not a bad $1500 catch for a good running truck in my opinion.