I recently bought this C20, running manual tranny and a 327. I have been daily driving it for the past month, its wintery here in NZ right now.
Plan is an LS3 and 6L80 conversion (sitting in the shed), I am going 5 lug all the way around, I have a 70's C10 front end a 12 bolt rear, aircon, rewire... bed is currently non existent, lucky I have a mate who makes timber mouldings, so he will run the decking timber for me and I will reuse the old steel strips cleaned up a bit.
It will be signwritten, all the dings and dents will be left and it will be my daily driver. Chassis is in for blasting and painting in a week.