Alex's 64 C10 Stepside

[Hydra]

Well I'm mostly a lurker around the forums but I thought it'd be nice to have thread just to need track of progress since I bought it in July,being my first car,and a broke 16 year old work will be slow.Sorry if I miss some obvious questions I'm the only one in my family who's really into cars,other than my uncle(he lives in FL and got me into C10's) so I'm teaching myself and researching.well enough back story and excuses,excuses are for losers.
My uncle is who got me into C10's and cars in general. My family is Cuban so I was born in Florida and we lived there until I was 9, but we still go back all the time.I remember when I was around 4 all our family was together celebrating a birthday at his house.His house is pretty much straight out of the F&F movies (I know I know but I love them because the family aspect is a lot like ours), it has the barn out back that's a shop with that monster sitting inside,and in this case it was a 70-72 yellow stepside with a 454.I remember we were all out back by the pool and all the men were playing dominoes while they smoked cigars and sipped caronas.He opened up thus shed he had built and fired it up to take it for a quick rip around the block.As soon as it fired up I ran to it and smiled from ear to ear.It's not the craziest thing but at that time I thought it was the most badass thing ever.You could hear from a mile away and it sat low with just a tiny gap between the tires and fenders.That started it all and I still remember it to this day.He eventually sold it for 4000 because "it had some rust in the bed" but really it was because he wanted to get a c6 corvette,it was his dream.It was out of the blue though and I wish I would've had the chance to save up to buy it from him.
But here she is.She's a 64 Stepside,and for $2500, it was a pretty good deal.It's a base model but the 230 runs strong,and most of the work is just fixing bad work previous owner did,it runs and drives very well,the only problem is that I get 9mpg the way I drive , and since I still only have my permit both my parents are scared of it.
This is the day I got her

And then,me being stupid,thought it'd be a great idea to take her out when my parents weren't home on this twisty road,and I hit a sign around 40 because I was distracted washing a cigarette.The speedometer doesn't work so I don't know how fast I was going.
I remember I had a lump in my throut,the passenger bumper was trashed,mostly because it was rusted anyways,and the bumper and grille dented as did the center grille support and rad support.

Luckily the truck came with an extra grille support and the rad support was mostly okay except for the mount for the passenger center grille support mounts being dented in.I was able to straighten the grille and after some saving got a repo fender to get her back on the road.
I painted the grille black thinking it would make it look better


But that got old so I brought all the chrome back and sanded down the primer that the PO didn't.I have to fix the cap corners that he just slapped Bondo over,the doors,and some other spots but first I need to save up to get up to get a cheap flux core welder from harbor freight.I also need to go back over the primer with 800 and 1100 grit because it's going to stay in primer until the body work is done.

The truck also came with seats out of a 30th anniversary camaro but also came with a bench so I but that in it.the shifter caused a few issues but I figured it out.

Also rebuilt the rear brakes and lines,wired the stereo so it'd work,fixed the dome light and adjusted the carb so it'd actually run but I can't quite get it spot on.Then it got new plugs,air filter,oil and a lot of other things that I can't quite remember right because I'm really bad at keeping track of things.All of the clear photos are really recent (last week)
because again,I suck at keeping track.