1972...ish C10 - Finishing What They Started

[ClassicIron]

I guess it runs in the family… our first car show with all the trucks together. My brothers ‘72 and dads ‘69 which won Best Truck.

[ClassicIron]

Somewhere along the way I swapped out the tiny chrome steering wheel for a larger wood grip wheel and installed a ‘Bad Boy’ horn. At the time it was the loudest horn they sold that didn’t require an air compressor. That was fun until the ground wire fell off in the high school parking lot.. if anybody at school didn’t know the truck before that, they did now. More pics of interior and its first snow day in many years.

[ClassicIron]

In 2017 I decided to show the truck in the Portland Roadster show along with my dads ‘69. While he was center stage I got stuck in the back corner of the expo center with the high schoolers. It was a fun experience and I ended up winning the high school challenge class. My dad didn’t leave empty handed either taking home ‘Best Street Truck’. Pic featuring a new to me rear sport bumper.

[ClassicIron]

I continued to drive the truck as it was through high school. It helped me get my high school girlfriend and was the vehicle of choice for every date night and weekend cruise.

I eventually went off to college, only able to drive my truck once every month or two. Besides trading wheels for some wider corvette rallies on cooper cobra tires, not much changed until the summer of 2020 when I decided I was tired of looking at all the grease and surface rust underneath. Not to mention the 3/5 drop from 2015 on stock geometry shocks that were probably blown by now, 50 year old wiring, and brake likes that were likely not flowing like they should. It was time for a rebuild.