progress pic's (14 year old nephew's 68')

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Is the 250 L6 staying in it? (looks too short to be a 292).

Just curious! On a project like this, if you're going to put in a 350, please let me know. For a first-truck project like this, I would be happy to mail a refurbished automatic tranny crossmember to you (stock) with some hardware to put it together. Anything to help out a youg fella catch the bug

Wish him the best of luck on his project. If he reads anything, let him read this: Very few boys and girls get the privilege of building their own car from the ground up - a lot of them are stuck dreaming, building model cars instead. Your family is giving you a real gift. That truck is going to teach you a ton of stuff about cars, so you should be able to fix them on your own later in life, rather than pay out the nose to have someone else do it. Although it may not seem important now, you're going to cherish the time you get to spend together with your family working on that thing - this is another thing a lot of kids today don't get a chance to do.

I'm saying all this because I was one of those kids that had a dad who took the time to sit down and work on my cars with me and show me how stuff works. I can still call him on the phone and work through problems with cars, stuff in the house, or anything else!

Good luck with that thing. You have a ton of guys here at this forum that are behind you on your buildup!