'72 C/10 Custom Cruiser Project

[Cameron 1137]

Well, after well over a year of waiting and some snags along the way, the seat is finally wrapped in this beautiful seat cover from member truckseats. My upholstery guy did an absolutely OUTSTANDING job!











Also made the gas fill hole in the cab disappear!













Removed the slider.



and a little more work on the bed.

[oldman3]

Cam, great update. I have to agree with you on the seat, all the seams and the strips line up great, nice job....Jim

[raull]

Holly molly !!! Some updates there buddy !!!!
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[jb1016]

Wow, that Highlander seat cover is excellent!!

[oldman3]

Hey Cam, haven't heard anything from you in months, what's going on....Jim

[Cameron 1137]

Originally Posted by oldman3

Cam, great update. I have to agree with you on the seat, all the seams and the strips line up great, nice job....Jim

Originally Posted by raull

Holly molly !!! Some updates there buddy !!!!
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Originally Posted by jb1016

Wow, that Highlander seat cover is excellent!!

Thanks Guys!

Originally Posted by oldman3

Hey Cam, haven't heard anything from you in months, what's going on....Jim

Between busting on the truck to get it to lake george back in september and school i haven't had much time, but i have a HUGE update with tons of pics coming now!

[mcbassin]

That seat is amazing! Very nice job on the filler and bodywork too!

[Cameron 1137]

Ok, so it seems like i only like to update this every six months or so.

Another big update so ill split it up into sections again rather than try to go in chronological order.

Body work is up first, picking up where i left off

Finished up on the back window


Because I'm relocating the gas tank i had to figure out where to put the fill. I didn't like the look of it being on the bedside and I didn't want to have to deal with putting it in the bed rail so I opted to put it on the bed floor. Went to a local junkyard and found a gas door off of an 90's ford. I got this idea from a member here but i can't remember who

Cut the hole


fitting the door


Welded in


All welded in


Body worked!




Also painted the front of the bed before it went back on

[Cameron 1137]

Originally Posted by mcbassin

That seat is amazing! Very nice job on the filler and bodywork too!

Thanks Mike! I can't take all the credit for the body work, a buddy of mine is helping me out, but I'm definitely learning a lot!

[Cameron 1137]

next up is the tank. It's custom-built by my buddy that does all my welding for me, its aprox 23-24 gallons.

These pics are from when we were building the mounts

[Cameron 1137]

Got the engine back in and fired it to make sure the manifold I'm using was going to work! Fired up and ran good! sorry no video

[Cameron 1137]

The new wheels. Steelies! 15x6 in the front and 15x8 in the back. I had to go with the new wheels because the rallies were 8's all the way around and I was having rubbing issues in the front because of the drop spindles. I'm running bullet center caps and bullet lugs.









Then the bed went back on

[Cameron 1137]

Then the wheels got a few coats of gloss BLAAAACK!





Gonna have to wait a few more posts for a shot on the truck.

[Cameron 1137]

New core support and inner fenders got their coat of satin black



Still wet here!



installed along with a lot more stuff in the engine bay!

[Cameron 1137]

Interior Time! a lot went on here

primed the bare spots







Orange!





Then i layed down some dyna mat and some heat insulation







And some interior goodies
Tach Dash




Retrosound Radio

[Cameron 1137]

Air Ride! this my favorite part, i had fun installing everything

Tank painted with custom brackets for exomounts. I really like the exomounts but because I bought a bigger tank the bands that Accuair makes wouldn't fit mine so me and my buddy sat down and came up with some brackets.





All the shiny stuff bolted on



Mock up. Most of my fittings and hardware came from Bag Riders I used bulkhead fittings for the pass through the bed.





Plumbed. Ill have to get some more pics of it all done and wired up with my touch box set up. I've since changed the routing of the fill and exhaust lines on the manifold.

[Cameron 1137]

Fast forward a bit to early September. I had only about a week left to get it all assembled and aligned and work out the bugs before I brought it to Lake George. it made for some long days.

These pics were from just a few days before we left.

[Cameron 1137]

So comes the day when we headed out for Lake George. I spent the morning buttoning up some things getting ready to go and we finally headed out. Normally from my house to Lake George the trip is only about 2 1/2 hours even on back roads. Everything started out okay the first hour or so of the journey went relatively uneventful. Then the engine started to bog down like it was losing fuel so we limped to the closest gas station to try to figure out what the problem was. We thought it was a bad fuel pump so me and my dad headed to the closest advance auto to pick up a new one. We put it on in the parking lot and an hour and a half or two hours later we were back on our way and everything seemed to be okay. Maybe 10 or 15 miles down the road we started to have the same problem so we pulled over again to try to figure it out. After quite a while of thinking we figured out that the pick up tube in the gas tank must've fallen off sometime during installation or just generally getting knocked around before was put in. So thinking like MacGyver I stole some of the vent hose from the tank and used it to re route the gas line directly into the fill spout of the tank, cutting out the pickup tube all together. This did the trick and we made it the rest of the way to Lake George without a problem, although it did take us about seven hours to get there in the end!

Here are some pics from when we got to our motel, the sign seemed fitting.



Sitting in the lot


tilt!

[Cameron 1137]

When we got back from Lake George i finally got around to taking some nice pictures.





















And the most recent (crappy) photos of the engine bay. needs cleaning!







i still have some more to do in there. plug wires, paint valve covers and figure out why the alternator isn't charging

[Cameron 1137]

And here are the most recent winter pics. had to do some re-arranging in the garage so she got some time in the snow!

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and finally, a pic of my 2 money suckers together



and the newest money pit was welcomed into our family in october! a 1962 Impala 327 w/ dual quads. I guess its time for a bigger garage

[Cameron 1137]

Thats it for updates for now, the plan is to work out the rest of the bugs and to some other odds and ends for the rest of the winter and come spring, finish the body work and paint the damn thing!

[long n low]

Your truck looks awesome! Are you using a single stage paint?

[mcbassin]

Awesome Work! You have covered a bunch of ground in short order! thanks for sharing all the pictures. Your truck really looks great.

[oldman3]

Cam, super update. Missed not hearing from you, but you got a lot done and it looks great, interior is super. Don't be a stranger and drop us a word or two, now and then. Take care and have a great year...Jim