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68gmcdually · 07-05-2005, 12:37 PM

I am very proud of it, I felt like the king of the world driving her to the church to get married. I have three loves of my life now, Sharon, my little cocker spaniel and the truck. In that order. Unfortunately Oscar is 7 years old now so I will have to deal with that in the upcoming years.

modifiedGMC · 07-05-2005, 08:17 PM

Man those pictures of all those classics looks like you were back in time! Hey maybe you built a time machine with all the work that you put in it! It DEFINITELY, without a doubt looks great!!!

67_C-30 · 07-06-2005, 12:16 AM

Great job James! Those newer center caps and trim rings will really set off the wheels. What size tire are you running? They look pretty beefy, and make the truck look even bigger, which I like.

Hopefully I will get a little free time later this month, after things slow down a little bit, to work on my '67.

68gmcdually · 07-06-2005, 01:50 PM

Thanks: They are really big tires, but I wanted something substantial to handle the load of the trailer. They are 235/85 's. They hold the road good.

68gmcdually · 09-25-2005, 10:01 AM

I finally have some more completed pics of the truck. Here are two pics that I have of it actually working, the one with the gold buick I am just delivering it to its new home and the one with the '60 F-100 is from when we where leaving a car show approx. 5 hours south of here. The truck performed flawlessly. I will have some interior pics within the week, I HOPE. We have even had the truck camping dragging the house trailer.

LUV2XCLR8 · 09-25-2005, 10:24 AM

Awesome

**Canadian694x4** · 09-25-2005, 01:31 PM

LookS Great James...Can't wait to see your interior Pics!

67_C-30 · 09-25-2005, 11:00 PM

Using it as a TRUCK!! I love it!!

**N2TRUX** · 09-26-2005, 09:58 AM

Work that dog! That's cool to see it in action....

68gmcdually · 09-26-2005, 01:13 PM

Thanks guys for all of the nice compliments.

This truck loves towing a trailer. It handles better but is a little short in the HP department but that is ok. I have only towed a few cars around for friends or delivering them after restoration or after we sell them. I have also got her back on the road after a minor mechanical problem. Apparently I got water in the fuel somehow, alot of it and it didn't like running on 50% water and 50% no lead. All that is behind me now I hope and I hope to enjoy it for a few more weeks before the Snow flies up here.

The Intimidator · 09-26-2005, 05:50 PM

wow nice rig

love the colour was that 92 Chevrolet 3500 runin on propane? if so do you have all the hardware mixers and tanks to convert a gaser to propane still? if so i may be interested in it

68gmcdually · 09-26-2005, 06:33 PM

The truck did run on straight propane (LPG) when I got it. It is a retired Superior Propane service truck. It so happens that my brother owns a Propane company that has a silverado 2500 service truck that was on straight gas so I "donated" the mixer and vaporizer and computer to it. The tanks ended up in my F-250HD work truck that we just had converted for dual fuel. I wish now in retrospect that I had of kept the LPG but for few months that I can work it I would rather have less hassles and just keep the tried trusted and true quadrajet. If you want something converted dual fuel is the only way to go. We have two on dual fuel and 7 on straight LPG and with them you are always worried about running out somewhere. We use a company down by the airport called Canso Automotive for all of our conversions.

narx66gmc · 09-28-2005, 02:08 PM

wow. i have spent the last 20 minutes looking at this thread, and i must say that you have done one heck of a job. that is truly a cool looking truck. congratulations

68gmcdually · 09-28-2005, 03:39 PM

Thank you very much for the compliment. The truck definetly garners attention wherever it goes and it has really been a labour of love.

67_C-30 · 09-29-2005, 11:28 PM

You mean "labor of love"

j/k!!!

68gmcdually · 11-17-2005, 10:59 PM

I feel so horrible, it is snowing and blowing here tonight and the truck is sitting outside in it all. I fell like a terrible person. I really need to get it into the storage building post haste.

**N2TRUX** · 11-18-2005, 12:09 AM

Well she might understand if you show good intentions. As soon as the snow lets up, get going on that building...

TEAM THC · 11-18-2005, 01:55 PM

very cool tow rig!! new on the inside old on the outside...

68gmcdually · 11-18-2005, 06:36 PM

The truck is slated for the storage building tomorrow after I get all of the trailers in there. My parent's have a motorhome and my 2 brother's and I each have a house trailer. Yet we rarely ever go away camping. GO figure HUH!!

68gmcdually · 11-20-2005, 12:41 PM

Well the snow finally melted and I took a few "more completed" pics of the truck. I still have boxes of accessories to get installed but that will be a mid winter, early spring project.

I have some more that I post later on. Just thought that I would share.

llegos · 11-20-2005, 02:22 PM

what are you running for a tranny?

68gmcdually · 11-20-2005, 04:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by llegos

what are you running for a tranny?

I am running the original (1992) 5 sp. including overdrive cast iron transmission. It takes 3 men and a little boy to pull it. It works well, the gearing in it is amazing.

LUV2XCLR8 · 02-20-2006, 06:44 PM

Now that's one hell of a tranny

Igotachevyor2 · 02-23-2006, 12:33 AM

thats one heck of a rig ya built anything new??

68gmcdually · 02-23-2006, 11:44 AM

Nothing new done to it since the last pictures, I put the truck away for the winter the day that those pics where taken and it is crammed in our building with 30+ other vehicles so there is no room to work on it. However we get our new house tomorrow with a BIG garage on the lot so once the snow melts around here I will have a permanent home for her where I can work on it year round.

EDIT: the snow on the new property is now about half way up the door on this garage due to drifting and no one living there to shovel it.

07-05-2005, 12:37 PM	#151
68gmcdually Registered User Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Fenelon Falls, ON Canada Posts: 1,454	I am very proud of it, I felt like the king of the world driving her to the church to get married. I have three loves of my life now, Sharon, my little cocker spaniel and the truck. In that order. Unfortunately Oscar is 7 years old now so I will have to deal with that in the upcoming years. __________________ James Bellwood 1968 930 Extend-A-Cab Dually 5.7l, 5 speed,

07-05-2005, 08:17 PM	#152
modifiedGMC Registered User Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Walker Co. Alabama Posts: 474	Man those pictures of all those classics looks like you were back in time! Hey maybe you built a time machine with all the work that you put in it! It DEFINITELY, without a doubt looks great!!! __________________ If it don't fit, force it,...If it still don't fit , modify it 'till it does fit !!!

07-06-2005, 12:16 AM	#153
67_C-30 I have a radical idea! Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Sweet Home Alabama! Posts: 6,513	Great job James! Those newer center caps and trim rings will really set off the wheels. What size tire are you running? They look pretty beefy, and make the truck look even bigger, which I like. Hopefully I will get a little free time later this month, after things slow down a little bit, to work on my '67. __________________ '67 C-30 Dually Pickup 6.2 Turbo Diesel, NP435 ‘72 C-10 SWB , 350 4bbl, TH350 '69 C-10 SWB , 250 L6, 3 OTT '69 GMC C3500, dump truck, 351 V6, NP435 '84 M1009 CUCV Military Blazer 67 C-30 Turbodiesel build thread http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=254096 My trucks http://s226.photobucket.com/albums/d...ediafilter=all Member of the 1-Ton Club!

07-06-2005, 01:50 PM	#154
68gmcdually Registered User Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Fenelon Falls, ON Canada Posts: 1,454	Thanks: They are really big tires, but I wanted something substantial to handle the load of the trailer. They are 235/85 's. They hold the road good. __________________ James Bellwood 1968 930 Extend-A-Cab Dually 5.7l, 5 speed,

09-25-2005, 10:01 AM	#155
68gmcdually Registered User Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Fenelon Falls, ON Canada Posts: 1,454	I finally have some more completed pics of the truck. Here are two pics that I have of it actually working, the one with the gold buick I am just delivering it to its new home and the one with the '60 F-100 is from when we where leaving a car show approx. 5 hours south of here. The truck performed flawlessly. I will have some interior pics within the week, I HOPE. We have even had the truck camping dragging the house trailer. Attached Images __________________ James Bellwood 1968 930 Extend-A-Cab Dually 5.7l, 5 speed,

09-25-2005, 10:24 AM	#156
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09-25-2005, 01:31 PM	#157
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09-25-2005, 11:00 PM	#158
67_C-30 I have a radical idea! Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Sweet Home Alabama! Posts: 6,513	Using it as a TRUCK!! I love it!! __________________ '67 C-30 Dually Pickup 6.2 Turbo Diesel, NP435 ‘72 C-10 SWB , 350 4bbl, TH350 '69 C-10 SWB , 250 L6, 3 OTT '69 GMC C3500, dump truck, 351 V6, NP435 '84 M1009 CUCV Military Blazer 67 C-30 Turbodiesel build thread http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=254096 My trucks http://s226.photobucket.com/albums/d...ediafilter=all Member of the 1-Ton Club!

09-26-2005, 09:58 AM	#159
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09-26-2005, 01:13 PM	#160
68gmcdually Registered User Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Fenelon Falls, ON Canada Posts: 1,454	Thanks guys for all of the nice compliments. This truck loves towing a trailer. It handles better but is a little short in the HP department but that is ok. I have only towed a few cars around for friends or delivering them after restoration or after we sell them. I have also got her back on the road after a minor mechanical problem. Apparently I got water in the fuel somehow, alot of it and it didn't like running on 50% water and 50% no lead. All that is behind me now I hope and I hope to enjoy it for a few more weeks before the Snow flies up here. __________________ James Bellwood 1968 930 Extend-A-Cab Dually 5.7l, 5 speed,

09-26-2005, 05:50 PM	#161
The Intimidator Registered User Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Canada Posts: 18	wow nice rig love the colour was that 92 Chevrolet 3500 runin on propane? if so do you have all the hardware mixers and tanks to convert a gaser to propane still? if so i may be interested in it

09-26-2005, 06:33 PM	#162
68gmcdually Registered User Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Fenelon Falls, ON Canada Posts: 1,454	The truck did run on straight propane (LPG) when I got it. It is a retired Superior Propane service truck. It so happens that my brother owns a Propane company that has a silverado 2500 service truck that was on straight gas so I "donated" the mixer and vaporizer and computer to it. The tanks ended up in my F-250HD work truck that we just had converted for dual fuel. I wish now in retrospect that I had of kept the LPG but for few months that I can work it I would rather have less hassles and just keep the tried trusted and true quadrajet. If you want something converted dual fuel is the only way to go. We have two on dual fuel and 7 on straight LPG and with them you are always worried about running out somewhere. We use a company down by the airport called Canso Automotive for all of our conversions. __________________ James Bellwood 1968 930 Extend-A-Cab Dually 5.7l, 5 speed,

09-28-2005, 02:08 PM	#163
narx66gmc Registered User Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Bentonville, AR Posts: 190	wow. i have spent the last 20 minutes looking at this thread, and i must say that you have done one heck of a job. that is truly a cool looking truck. congratulations

09-28-2005, 03:39 PM	#164
68gmcdually Registered User Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Fenelon Falls, ON Canada Posts: 1,454	Thank you very much for the compliment. The truck definetly garners attention wherever it goes and it has really been a labour of love. __________________ James Bellwood 1968 930 Extend-A-Cab Dually 5.7l, 5 speed,

09-29-2005, 11:28 PM	#165
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11-17-2005, 10:59 PM	#166
68gmcdually Registered User Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Fenelon Falls, ON Canada Posts: 1,454	Re: Progress pics of my '68 GMC Extend-a-cab I feel so horrible, it is snowing and blowing here tonight and the truck is sitting outside in it all. I fell like a terrible person. I really need to get it into the storage building post haste. __________________ James Bellwood 1968 930 Extend-A-Cab Dually 5.7l, 5 speed,

11-18-2005, 12:09 AM	#167
N2TRUX Happy to be here Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Cypress, TX Posts: 39,021	Re: Progress pics of my '68 GMC Extend-a-cab Well she might understand if you show good intentions. As soon as the snow lets up, get going on that building... __________________ Follow me on Facebook and Instagram @N2trux.com Articles- "Jake" the 84 to 74 crewcab "Elwood" the77_Remix 85 GMC Sierra "Scarlett" "Refining Sierra"

11-18-2005, 01:55 PM	#168
TEAM THC CUSTOM CHEVY FIEND Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: CHICO CA Posts: 227	Re: Progress pics of my '68 GMC Extend-a-cab very cool tow rig!! new on the inside old on the outside...

11-18-2005, 06:36 PM	#169
68gmcdually Registered User Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Fenelon Falls, ON Canada Posts: 1,454	Re: Progress pics of my '68 GMC Extend-a-cab The truck is slated for the storage building tomorrow after I get all of the trailers in there. My parent's have a motorhome and my 2 brother's and I each have a house trailer. Yet we rarely ever go away camping. GO figure HUH!! __________________ James Bellwood 1968 930 Extend-A-Cab Dually 5.7l, 5 speed,

11-20-2005, 12:41 PM	#170
68gmcdually Registered User Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Fenelon Falls, ON Canada Posts: 1,454	Re: Progress pics of my '68 GMC Extend-a-cab Well the snow finally melted and I took a few "more completed" pics of the truck. I still have boxes of accessories to get installed but that will be a mid winter, early spring project. I have some more that I post later on. Just thought that I would share. Attached Images __________________ James Bellwood 1968 930 Extend-A-Cab Dually 5.7l, 5 speed,

11-20-2005, 02:22 PM	#171
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02-20-2006, 06:44 PM	#173
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02-23-2006, 12:33 AM	#174
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02-23-2006, 11:44 AM	#175
68gmcdually Registered User Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Fenelon Falls, ON Canada Posts: 1,454	Re: Progress pics of my '68 GMC Extend-a-cab Nothing new done to it since the last pictures, I put the truck away for the winter the day that those pics where taken and it is crammed in our building with 30+ other vehicles so there is no room to work on it. However we get our new house tomorrow with a BIG garage on the lot so once the snow melts around here I will have a permanent home for her where I can work on it year round. EDIT: the snow on the new property is now about half way up the door on this garage due to drifting and no one living there to shovel it. Attached Images __________________ James Bellwood 1968 930 Extend-A-Cab Dually 5.7l, 5 speed, Last edited by 68gmcdually; 02-23-2006 at 11:53 AM.

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