Grandpa Joe's Truck

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Back in May the wife and I found out that her grandpa's truck would be going on the chopping block due to some issue within the family. It has been with her Mother since Grandpa passed in '02 and we were really sad to see it go to another person that did not have the history with it that she did. So, we made some plans and went and picked it up over the Memorial holiday.
Details of it that I know is that it is a 1973 Cheyenne model with a 350/Auto. It has been updated to run on both gas and Propane and all of the parts are there to run both although the propane has been disconnected long ago. It is a 2wd Long bed that appears to have been lowered a bit, not sure exact measurements, but it sits pretty nice.
This is where it has rested for at least the last 10 years.

I am not really sure how long it has sat, but the tags expired in 2005 and I know that it was registered as a non-op prior to that for insurance reasons.
It is pretty straight except for the drivers fender where the bro in law backed into it with another truck...

Also the hood had some paint chipping issues from a repaint several years ago that caused it to completely peel off the passenger side of the hood!

Got that all ground down on the passenger side and shot a quick coat of etch primer on it to stop the rusting and hope to paint it some time in the future.
We loaded it up on the rental trailer and drove over to the Sis-in-laws house and proceeded to try to get it running.

Dad-in-Law and I worked on it for about 20 minutes and low and behold it fired and ran like a top! was super excited to say the least.
Anyway, got a couple more pics to load, but will have to wait til tonight.