1966 C10 Project Truck

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Originally Posted by jcramsey

Are we related? That looks like something that would happen to me!

Ha! I've been pretty good about not doing anything stupid in the old pickup but the heat got to me and I just wasn't thinking. Oh well, that's all part of the game

Tinkered with the truck a bit on Saturday, fixed my power steering leak, exhaust leak and also figured out why the clutch started acting up again. Between the C10 and my Jeep, I've got full weekends of wrenching . I headed over to a buddy's house yesterday to see what they have been up to and decided to throw my GoPro in the pickup. The good parts are at 5:00 and 11:00 for those that want to skip ahead. Enjoy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbLgVYLSQhA

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Finally got the old girl on the autocross track yesterday and I gotta say that I'm absolutely hooked! I was real nervous going in since I hadn't ever done an autocross before and I wasn't sure how the truck was going to do. Everyone was real supportive and happy to lend a hand when I needed it so the nerves went away quickly. We got 8 runs in and I was improving during my first 5 laps with the 5th lap being my best. For 6 and 7, my dad was riding with me and I slowed down a bit and then for the 8th lap, I beat myself and drove all wrong but was still pretty fast. For a simple suspension build on a 51 year old truck, I can't complain about anything, it was just way too much fun!

Here's a video from my fastest lap, it seemed like a lot longer when I was driving

https://youtu.be/LOvkHTF_u-A

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Here are a couple of shots that dad got of it going around the track

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I've been keeping an eye out for a new cab with a big back window for some time now and I looked at a couple cabs with small windows that were better and worse than what I have at the same time. A big window cab popped up at a wrecking yard a couple hours away from the house so dad and I loaded up with the trailer and headed up Saturday morning with the intentions of bringing the whole cab back. Turns out, a guy has been looking at the cab for 3 weeks and beat us out by like 10 minutes, dangit! Overall, that cab was way more gone than what I had and he just wanted the big window panel. Feeling bummed, dad and I walked the yard in search of another big window cab that I saw in their inventory list the night before. We found it and the cab was untouched. Since it was a knee-knocker cab, I was only interested in the back of the cab so we went to work cutting the cab up. Pretty excited to add this to the list of winter projects this year

Dad starting the cuts at the roof


Success!


Felt like the trailer was a little overkill for this but we did head up with the intentions of bringing a whole cab back so I guess I had to use the trailer


For the conversion, I will be cutting the interior panels out of each cab and spot welding the big panel onto my cab. That process looks to be pretty straightforward with minimal paint damage