My wifes C10. Well thats what I tell her.

[Spragg]

I was trying to get my wife to drive my crew cab or cadillac this summer but she thought she should have her own truck. I did not give her any time to change her mind and found a pretty clean short box. Plans are bagged, 22s, Big block or 6L, big back window conversion. I told her this was a budget build. I think I blew the budget idea the day I talked to porterbuilt, But I'm trying to keep it reasonable.

Sorry for the bad blackberry pictures.





Yesterday a few friends pushed it in the garage and tore it down.



Wheels, bags and compressors are here. Porterbuilt dropmember and stuff are still about a month away. Will be doing gerneral clean up on the frame and start some cab repair while I wait for parts to arrive.



Thats its for now. Will update this as I make progress, follow along as I try to finish it for next summer.

[Ta2Don]

and Welcome aboard!!!
One heckuva start!!!

[chad64chevy]

nice starting point, what are the 6 lug rims?

[Spragg]

Originally Posted by chad64chevy

nice starting point, what are the 6 lug rims?

They are GM transit wheels

[McMurphy]

Looks like a great start !!
Good Luck and enjoy !!

Looks like you are no stranger to classics, assuming the car on the lift is yours as well.
Is that a 62-63ish Impala or BelAire ?

[b.sharp]

Looks more like a 60's Caddi than a 60's belair/biscane.. Great start to the project.

[1963c-10]

Welcome and looks like your off to a nice start on the restoration.

[Spragg]

Originally Posted by McMurphy

Looks like a great start !!
Good Luck and enjoy !!

Looks like you are no stranger to classics, assuming the car on the lift is yours as well.
Is that a 62-63ish Impala or BelAire ?

Thanks everyone and it is a 63 cadillac, Just a bagged driver waiting its turn for a turbo LS swap.

[McMurphy]

Originally Posted by Spragg

Thanks everyone and it is a 63 cadillac, Just a bagged driver waiting its turn for a turbo LS swap.

Awesome!
Well, at least I was close on the year !!

[Delmo]

Awesome.

[Bob Sacamano]

That's a sweet lookin' caddy. I've got a '69 coupe DeVille i'd like to setup on air bags some day. Would you mind sharing any info as to what you did to & put into your '63? Looking forward to seeing how your C10 comes along too. I've always loved the look of those trucks & just picked up my first. Be sure to keep the pictures coming.

[duallyjams]

lol I used the same story when I bought the 65 swb bbw. Looking forward to how fast you move a long on this.

[Spragg]

Originally Posted by Bob Sacamano

That's a sweet lookin' caddy. I've got a '69 coupe DeVille i'd like to setup on air bags some day. Would you mind sharing any info as to what you did to & put into your '63? Looking forward to seeing how your C10 comes along too. I've always loved the look of those trucks & just picked up my first. Be sure to keep the pictures coming.

The Cadillac has 2600 dominators all the way around. Cups on the top of the front and rear bags, plates on the arms. Trimed front spring pocket. I never took any pictures. But Caddy's are fairly easy to bag.



My buddy Brandon was over we the box apart for some rust repair and moved the cab to start filling a bunch of holes in the firewall. I will be sand blasting the cab at a later date.

[Modges'66]

A very nice truck to start with!
This should be a great project. Especially when the better-half is on-board!

[Bob Sacamano]

Thanks for the info. Looks like a slick ride. Looking forward to seeing how your truck works out. I mean your wife's truck, that is

[Spragg]

Time for a update. Got my porterbuilt front end about a month ago. So cleaned up the mess and started a little work. Taking pictures is always the last thing on my mind, I hope to try and take them a little more often.



Picked up a used pb trailing arm crossmember and my buddy brandon starting knocking out the back end.



Set the 6L and 4l80 in place



Got the exhaust started and put the frame on the ground for a little motivation.




Had to out of town for work training last week, so it has not changed since last Sunday. Next up will be panhard bar, new crossmembers in the back of the frame, mount the gas tank, air tank and compressors.

[NEWFISHER]

Looks great!
You've been busy in the last few weekends.

[Spragg]

Originally Posted by NEWFISHER

Looks great!
You've been busy in the last few weekends.

Thanks, So much left to do, need more hours in the day.

Picked up some used parts from members on here, some new stuff from lmc and a set of tires for a buddy. Time to get back out to the garage.

[Grizz1963]

Great progress. And a belated welcome.

Good to have a team.

We definitely live in the wrong part of the world.

Wish we had access to parts at the prices and as easy as you guys.

If we want anything here, you can add 200% plus to the price.

I bought my wife a Christmas present off Ebay in the USA for $30.00 which ended up just over $100.00 by the time I got it here.

Anyway, back to your awesome truck.

Please tell me more about BBW conversions...... How do you do them??

Thanks.

[Ta2Don]

Frame is...

[aggie91]

Great start on the truck and that Caddy is cool!

[Spragg]

I gotta pick up the pace but slowly getting some things done. Filling holes and started on the bbw. Im no body man or metal master so stuff like this takes me a while.









Have some work to do on the inner bbw panel i am installing. Hopefully finish it up this week.

[Ta2Don]

Looking Good! Great work on the Metal Work!!!

[Mikes66ChevyC10]

Looks like your doing a great job on your wife's truck!! LOL Of all the car's I've fixed up over the years our 66 C10 is the first one my wife has called hers!! LOL

[Hardesty454]

Looks like a great start! Love the frame