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Re: '72 C/10 Custom Cruiser Project
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!
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Re: '72 C/10 Custom Cruiser Project
Cam, great update. I have to agree with you on the seat, all the seams and the strips line up great, nice job....Jim
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Holly molly !!! Some updates there buddy !!!!
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Wow, that Highlander seat cover is excellent!!
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Re: '72 C/10 Custom Cruiser Project
Hey Cam, haven't heard anything from you in months, what's going on....Jim
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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!
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That seat is amazing! Very nice job on the filler and bodywork too!
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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 ![]()
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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!
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next up is the tank. It's custom-built by my buddy that does all my welding for me, its aprox 23-24 gallons.
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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
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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.
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Then the wheels got a few coats of gloss BLAAAACK!
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New core support and inner fenders got their coat of satin black
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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 ![]()
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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. ![]() ![]()
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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. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]()
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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! ![]()
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When we got back from Lake George i finally got around to taking some nice pictures.
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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 ![]() ![]()
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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!
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Your truck looks awesome! Are you using a single stage paint?
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Awesome Work! You have covered a bunch of ground in short order! thanks for sharing all the pictures. Your truck really looks great.
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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
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