Bought a '70

[Tynee]

It has a bit of an identity crisis with the wrong grille:


Started life as a 3 on the column, but has since been converted to a floor shift 4 speed:



350 w/ a holley 4 bbl and HEI, dual exhaust with manifolds (I don't really care for headers anyway):


Really a pretty solid truck over all, even though there's some bondo and some rust starting in the body seems. The body work was done by an 85 year old man who wanted something to tinker with. After he diead at age 90, his son decided to sell the truck.

I drove by it about 6 months ago, and decided maybe after I graduated, I'd make a run at it if it was still for sale. Well, about 3 weeks before graduation, it disapeared, and I decided it was ok, since my true heart's desire is a '72 Blazer anyway. Then I took the the wife to DQ for some Ice Cream one night, and there it sat for sale again. It turns out the owner of the DQ bought it for a manager who could never come up with the cash to pay him back, so he repo'd it and was selling it. He was asking $2500, and I was only able to talk him down $100. I'm happy with it, though.

It's got an oil leak I need to track down and plug up along with a P.S. leak. It is also in need of a set of u-joints, hopefully, that will take care of the creaking noise I'm hearing when I put strain on the drivetrain, hopefully it isn't in the rear end. Other than that, I need a '70 grille, a floor-shift steering column (Olive), an aluminum tool chest to sit in the bed, and I need to find a match for one door panel or the other (I've got one metal, and one scroll w/ wood-grain trim right now).

I've really enjoyed driving a truck again. Its amazing how the truck with no A/C is so much more tolerable when it's 90 degrees out than the Malibu was when the A/C needed a charge/repair.

What's everybody think?

[Bucky71]

Nice truck. I prefer the 71-72 grill.