68 pro touring, auto cross c10 (mid life crisis)

[Dieselwrencher]

Very nice!

[72k5zl1]

no, they are 2.5" bearing full float. cup car parts. speedway enginering out in ca. arm are from steve at hth.

[splehigh]

Wow! Very nice! Awesome house/garage. Subscribing to this one.

[72k5zl1]

finally ready to weld floor in the other night, fitting the rockers and the inner rocker is 3/16" shallower then stock. DOORS DONT CLOSE! thanks so. ky. nice stuff your having stamped. had to cut and roll a new REPLACEMENT FLOOR to fit the rockers. what a piece of junk. will never do again. have drivers side in ready to weld in rocker later tonight or tomorrow. my friend kelly's been doing all nighters all week trying to fix this thing. sorry if i seam irritated, i have almost $500 into this floor + 60+ hrs of labor. who makes the dies for these things? if you are building tooling, build it right so it fits and charge more for quality.

[72k5zl1]

firewall is roughed in and plan on adding the tunnel as soon as floor is in.

[67chevy1series]

nice progress! you got the floor all welded in huh ,cool

[72k5zl1]

thanks. nope,not yet. the drivers side is done and ready to spot in the rocker. have to rework the pass side tonight or tomorrow.

[mooseknuckles]

sweet build man!

[Bennett68C10]

Can't wait to see this when its done, your doing everything i wish i could do to mine, love your garage too. I feel you pain about the floor, i had the same problem when i replaced my cab corners, rockers and part of my floor on the driver side. Nothing fit right, you spend more time making everything fit it very frustrating.

[Pop's C-10]

Killer set up

[67cheby]

wow...man those brakes are COOL

[Black Widow Customs]

BUild is going to be sikk.. Garage house is Badass i could use that right about now..

[72k5zl1]

moms out had some help in the shop tonight.

[68 TT]

Originally Posted by 72k5zl1

moms out had some help in the shop tonight.

Great pictures to have.

The pictures of my girls out working on the cars with me are the ones I treasure the most.

[67cheby]

that wagon is the SHIZNIT !!

[jbclassix]

Originally Posted by 67cheby

that wagon is the SHIZNIT !!

x2!

[72k5zl1]

like everything else in my life, not quite done!

[67cheby]

we on this forum are VISIONARIES....we see what it looks like done not what it looks like now....it our disease !!

[Dieselwrencher]

Nice work, that really stinks about the floor. I wonder if all of them are made by one stamper and they all don't fit right?

[72k5zl1]

i guess there is two suppliers, i called so ky parts yesterday and the owner was susposed to call me back. nothing yet. i will check back in a couple days. kelly is downstairs right now fighting it still.

[hgs_notes]

Originally Posted by 67cheby

we on this forum are VISIONARIES....we see what it looks like done not what it looks like now....it our disease !!

My wife and I always told ourselves we just saw the "potential" of the things we looked at, such as our house, my beater jimmy etc. I was never bold enough to consider myself as a visionary, but I like it.

She likes to also say that if we ever split up, I'd live in the garage. I tell her I'll get one big enough to park an RV in, but I like the upstairs apartment better. A mechanic friend has one around the corner from my house. He rents out the apartment and works downstairs. He lives about half a mile away.

I've seen enough builds now attempting to use that whole floor replacement to know I won't ever try it. Seems everytime it takes way more work than the regular patches would have needed and weeks or months go by, rather than a few days.

[72k5zl1]

i know this isnt part of the build, but. this is 1972, i was two years old and the old house was my great, great grandparents, we lived in the trailer. LOOK IN THE DRIVEWAY. that was my first truck when i was 9 or 10. it had factory buckets, tilt, tach and a 4spd. it was a green/teal color with black interior. i drove around the farm for a couple summers until i learned about the other gears. 2,3,4. came home from school and it was missing shortly after. everybody is still tight lipped about its whereabouts.

[72k5zl1]

still fighting this foolish floor. kelly had it welded front and rear, and the cab corner would not line up perfect. so apart it came. the floor is 3/16-1/4" to short front to rear. it never ends!! have alot of metal finishing to do later, try to keep filler to a minimum.

[72k5zl1]

heres some more, door lines are nice now. 1/4" all the way around.

[jbclassix]

i like the old pic... don't worry, I got WAY off my build.