69 396 vs lm7 CST build

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Here's how it all began....truth be told my wife pushed me to get the ball rolling (to which I am extremely lucky). Over the past several years I've been doing project upon project around the house and with a now 2 year old around the house (no longer napping) I needed something to keep my mind off things and as my wife says away from searching for something to destroy and rebuild around the house. So with my wife nudging me to work on something around the house but not on the house a project car was my only option (o no, lol). My search began back in July, was looking for a complete project car that would take some time. But every time I found something I would talk myself out of it. Finally decided to just pull the trigger with whatever was available one day at the end of august. I went to the bank to pull out some cash to purchase a beater of a 69 mustang, and decided to search one more time before driving over a hour to look at it. And so I found this 69 chevy c20 fairly close by. At a price I really couldn't say no to, if it ran or not. I had had a 71 GMC 3/4 ton in high school and ended up having to sell it due to finances but always dreamed of rebuilding one myself. So out to unpaved roads I went (literally) to pick this truck up. Wouldn't run and battery was dead. I was told the carb was bad but for $1200 bucks I couldn't say no. Tow truck driver met me there and said if there was no other way than the way google had him go there would be no way to get this truck out of here. I almost got stuck in my awd outback in one spot. The owner pointed us in another direction and we slowly made it to paved roads and back home. At this point I had a clear title in hand, a non running truck and a short story on the truck. It had been originally purchased by this sellers pastor and he bought it from him when he noticed it had been sitting for awhile and the pastor was no longer using it. It had a camper on it all its life and last ran 2 years prior. The sun was already down when I got there so most information was gathered the following day. Here are some pics the next day