'71 Truck, in storage for 35+ years.

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Originally Posted by spudder

The spid is gone. I can't find the original glove box door. The owner was going to make it into a Cheyenne Super so it has an original Super glove box door. I am putting it back as a Custom Deluxe so I need to find a really nice Hawaiian Blue plain glove box door.
I know pretty much what options the truck had from the factory. 307, turbo hydramatic trans, two tone paint, upper and lower chrome, Custom Deluxe trim, power steering, deluxe wheel covers, non gauge instrument panel and chrome front bumper. We added factory AC way back when!
It will have several other original options: power brakes, tilt wheel, AM FM radio, factory cruise control, chrome rear bumper and dual exhaust. I have all these items to add plus I want to convert to a volt meter and add an intermittent wiper module. I'm going to use a washer fluid reservoir from a mid 80s square body so it has an electric squirter pump ( I did this on a recent '64 pick up project}....a whole lot better than the original wiper driven pump system. Later, I plan to re-drill the rotors and axles so I can run '15x8 Corvette rally wheels or late '70s Covette aluminum wheels. For now, I have 15x8 truck rallys or some original 15X8 Cragar SS wheels.
The theme is a '70s-'80s look on an original paint SWB.

OK, should I consider lowering (3/4 drop) or leave stock height?

Drop it, the coils can be swapped back to stock in a afternoon. Its the giant wheels/LS/'bagged that is getting tiresome.