Surprising my 11 year old stepson with his 64 Chevy Longbed for Christmas

[McMurphy]

Man, the opportunity here for teaching a young man some major life lessons is huge!!
Right off the top he is going to learn that hard work pays its own rewards, money management, responsibility, goal setting and attaining, team work, communication, and pride in a job well done as well as the sense of taking care of it once it is done because he knows how much work went into it.

I am in awe and envy of this project, both in that I wish my parents would have and could have done this, and that I wish I had had the opportunity to do this with my son.

I hope you dont take too long to update again !!

[79azc10]

This is a great story. I planned on doing this with my son and my daughter as long as she gets her hands dirty. Luckily for me I have 10 years till my daughter can drive and 13 years for my son.

[Low Elco]

Looks like good progress-especially as crap as the weather's been lately. Come onnnnn spring!

[Loenuf74]

You aren't lying about the weather!! I think it's supposed to warm up some at the end of the week, so hopefully we'll be working on it. I can't decide if I'm going to go ahead and try to change the balljoints before I put all of the new stuff on. I know I probably should, but I start thinking that 50 year old metal is probably better and stronger than a lot of the stuff that's getting used today.

[Loenuf74]

We did a little more work this last weekend. Pulled the seat out and got all of the ball joints out. Bryce's birthday is this coming up weekend and he wanted to go to a local shop here in KC that just works on these old Chevy trucks. We're going to be taking some parts that we don't need and hopefully trading for some parts we do need. We've got a lot of the parts to start putting everything back together. So hopefully with the nice weather finally, we'll be rolling pretty good on the project.

[JWheeler331]

Awesome. Always good to have a Father/Son project to work on.

[1963c-10]

Originally Posted by Loenuf74

We did a little more work this last weekend. Pulled the seat out and got all of the ball joints out. Bryce's birthday is this coming up weekend and he wanted to go to a local shop here in KC that just works on these old Chevy trucks. We're going to be taking some parts that we don't need and hopefully trading for some parts we do need. We've got a lot of the parts to start putting everything back together. So hopefully with the nice weather finally, we'll be rolling pretty good on the project.

Betting its Tony Smiths at 4-5-6 chevy trucks!!! be a great place for him to go see.

And nice find on the custom cab truck....its nicely equipped!!!

[Loenuf74]

Yes, it is Tony's shop at 4-5-6 Chevy trucks. He's an awesome guy to deal with. I got a tailgate from him several months ago and he took me all around the shop and talked to me for almost an hour. He's a very nice guy and knows his stuff.