A 64-66 on American Restoration 11-11-11 9:00pm eastern

[padresag]

Originally Posted by kieth

You would have thought it only took 30 miniutes and they would have to have the dumbest kid buy the truck........They had the body off but never showed much work at all. It will make old trucks more expensive because they are so easy to restore......well we all know that isn't the way it really goes.........

maybe someone from here bought it!!!!
you cannot get to do much in 1/2 an hour; just think of the years that it takes on here.then try and condense it down into 30 mins. inc. commercials. it doesn't leave much.
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[TopFuel1966]

Unless they purposely changed the c-10 badges I'm wondering how they started with a junky '66 and ended up with a finished '65?

[csa daddy]

It was a 65 to start with an had 64 badges on it also
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[McCoyAZ]

Well Vegas aint that far from me so I'll drive up this week one day and look the truck over assuming the kid still has it.

I'll take pictures too.

What all ya wanna know about it?

[csa daddy]

is rick looking for help wouldnt mind moving out of the rust belt

[jocko]

pretty disappointed in the show myself... But then again, it wasn't a truck show just about truck restoration either - so it beat another news show! The guy(s) does(do) some great work on there, but like many of you, I would love to have seen more in-depth coverage of the resto. Looked nice when done, had a custom flare to it with the red/white interior, etc. All it needed was a white grille surround and black backing!.!.!.!

[Budman56]

yep it was a let down, I thought they would have shown a little more but thats hollywood tv for you, and by the way where does a kid get that kind of money to do a resto like that? hell I have spent over 15 grand and still have drove it yet. and thats me doing all the work to put it together.

['63GENIII]

I'm sure that if the show was as in depth as we all would have liked, there would have been many 60-66 owners missing from the forum at about the same time(and the show would be 2 weeks long). I thought the truck turned out good and it was cool to see a pizza eatin' youngster being into the resto of what is often an overlooked model.
I've always complained that our trucks seem like they are always missing from the commercials on T.V. It was nice to see them getting a little "face time" so to speak.

[MOJO1963GMC]

I'm betting History Channel foot the bill on that one. NO WAY that kid could afford that.

[McCoyAZ]

Okay so today I drove up to Vegas to the bone yard featured on the show, Las Vegas Truck Salvage. Talk about being disappointed.

There was NOT ONE SINGLE 60's truck in that yard, nothing, nada, zilch.

When I watched the show I was led to believe a guy could find a gold mine of 60's parts there......nothing!

Not only did that place have nothing but none of the yards I went to had anything and the one place that did have stuff acted like he wasn't all that interested in selling anything.

"I don't sell small stuff" was the 1st words outa the dudes mouth. He has 64 to 66 stuff but just the way he talks about what he has it will be WAY overpriced.

Hope the rest of the country has better luck finding parts than Vegas does.

[csa daddy]

check out desert vallet auto parts if i was close thats where i would go seen a sub on there site awhile back for 800

[McCoyAZ]

I have been to DVAP, they price things depending on their mood at the moment.

[Clyde65]

Oh come on guys, you mean to tell me it actually takes longer than 30 minutes to completely restore a truck!? ( sarcasm here)