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silvertonguedevil · 01-16-2005, 10:44 PM

Ok, so I finally got a garage!!

I will kinda catch ya up here and then I will try to maintain this same thread with any updates that come up.

I have always wanted a '72 Cheyenne Super short wide box 2wd pickup. I started out with a short frame and box and then later, my dad gave me a call and told me that my cousin's roommate bought a '72 Chevy pickup (?) for the running 350 that was in it to put in a '63 Chevy pickup he's restoring. He had made mention to my dad that he had this thing sitting in his driveway and he didn't know what to do with it. He was just wanting it to disappear. So I thought I would at least go take a look. Wouldn't ya know that it was a Cheyenne Super with a pretty decent cab. So I got the whole pickup just for haulin' it off. This was all taking place this last summer (before I had a garage) so everything was being drug off to a friends house. To consolidate everything, we spent a day and a half over a weekend and we put the Cheyenne cab on the short frame and put the front suspension from the Cheyenne under it (the short frame came with no front suspension). We're now officially on all fours and we've now got ourselves a '72 Cheyenne Super short wide box 2wd pickup!! Nothing much happened since then other than we had to put the pickup in storage due to trying to keep his wife happy (the whole "too much stuff laying around" routine)

silvertonguedevil · 01-16-2005, 10:46 PM

some more....

silvertonguedevil · 01-16-2005, 10:47 PM

Fast forward to January......so as earlier mentioned, I now have a garage.

So the pickup gets drug out of storage and put in my garage. I am getting ready to chemically "dip" this cab so everything comes off. Down to the bare metal bones. I have done some research and some shopping and I have found that it costs just as much to dip it as it does to media strip it or anything else, and it gets all of the rust off of it. Especially all of the little places that you can't get to. I am planning on doing this sometime this summer (it rains a lot in Portland and I don't want my naked cab getting rained on before I get a chance to put primer on it). I know what you see here isn't a whole lot of progess but it's some and I'm too frickin' excited to not show anyone

I will keep adding to this as I go.

vk_chevy · 01-17-2005, 01:14 AM

Who is gonna do your dipping and how much?

silvertonguedevil · 01-17-2005, 02:40 AM

A place here in Portland called American Metal Cleaning. They will do the cab for $600 and the doors for $140 each. They will also do an iron phosphate coating which will allow the primer to stick afterwards (without having to etch the surface by hand) for an additional $250.

HeavyD · 01-17-2005, 03:05 AM

Man that looks great. You got the truck for free too! Unreal. Make sure you keep posting progress pics..I like seeing the vehicle in stages as it is being restored.

CHEVY & GMC FOREVER · 01-17-2005, 03:24 AM

that is to cool that a beauty like that was free, you are very lucky now let's see what you can make of it. I can't wait to see it finished keep us all posted
also nice work on removing all of that stuff from the cab and cleaning it up.

68w/sbc406 · 01-17-2005, 09:10 PM

you got the most important thing done. its in a garage. now i see how you got the rear jacked up to check for posi, i thought you were going crazy and worked on it in the freezing rain

silvertonguedevil · 01-17-2005, 09:20 PM

Yeah, I would've been really mad to find out that it wasn't a posi if I was out in the rain.

01-16-2005, 10:44 PM	#1
silvertonguedevil Senior Member Join Date: May 2004 Location: Seaside, Oregon Posts: 1,789	Project update: Cheyenne Super Ok, so I finally got a garage!! I will kinda catch ya up here and then I will try to maintain this same thread with any updates that come up. I have always wanted a '72 Cheyenne Super short wide box 2wd pickup. I started out with a short frame and box and then later, my dad gave me a call and told me that my cousin's roommate bought a '72 Chevy pickup (?) for the running 350 that was in it to put in a '63 Chevy pickup he's restoring. He had made mention to my dad that he had this thing sitting in his driveway and he didn't know what to do with it. He was just wanting it to disappear. So I thought I would at least go take a look. Wouldn't ya know that it was a Cheyenne Super with a pretty decent cab. So I got the whole pickup just for haulin' it off. This was all taking place this last summer (before I had a garage) so everything was being drug off to a friends house. To consolidate everything, we spent a day and a half over a weekend and we put the Cheyenne cab on the short frame and put the front suspension from the Cheyenne under it (the short frame came with no front suspension). We're now officially on all fours and we've now got ourselves a '72 Cheyenne Super short wide box 2wd pickup!! Nothing much happened since then other than we had to put the pickup in storage due to trying to keep his wife happy (the whole "too much stuff laying around" routine) Attached Images __________________ -Greg My Chevy trucks, past and present: 1962 C10 SB Fleetside 1964 C10 LB Fleetside BBW 1966 C10 SB Fleetside 1966 C10 SB Fleetside BBW 1968 C10 SB Fleetside 1971 C10 LB Fleetside 1971 C10 SB Fleetside 1972 C10 SB Fleetside Cheyenne 1972 C10 SB Fleetside Cheyenne Super 1972 C10 LB Fleetside Cheyenne Super 1974 C20 Cheyenne 1979 K5 Blazer Cheyenne 1982 K10 SB Fleetside Custom Deluxe 1982 K10 SB Fleetside Scottsdale 1986 C10 SB Fleetside Silverado 2008 Silverado 1500 4x4 Last edited by silvertonguedevil; 01-16-2005 at 10:52 PM.

01-16-2005, 10:46 PM	#2
silvertonguedevil Senior Member Join Date: May 2004 Location: Seaside, Oregon Posts: 1,789	some more.... Attached Images __________________ -Greg My Chevy trucks, past and present: 1962 C10 SB Fleetside 1964 C10 LB Fleetside BBW 1966 C10 SB Fleetside 1966 C10 SB Fleetside BBW 1968 C10 SB Fleetside 1971 C10 LB Fleetside 1971 C10 SB Fleetside 1972 C10 SB Fleetside Cheyenne 1972 C10 SB Fleetside Cheyenne Super 1972 C10 LB Fleetside Cheyenne Super 1974 C20 Cheyenne 1979 K5 Blazer Cheyenne 1982 K10 SB Fleetside Custom Deluxe 1982 K10 SB Fleetside Scottsdale 1986 C10 SB Fleetside Silverado 2008 Silverado 1500 4x4

01-16-2005, 10:47 PM	#3
silvertonguedevil Senior Member Join Date: May 2004 Location: Seaside, Oregon Posts: 1,789	Fast forward to January......so as earlier mentioned, I now have a garage. So the pickup gets drug out of storage and put in my garage. I am getting ready to chemically "dip" this cab so everything comes off. Down to the bare metal bones. I have done some research and some shopping and I have found that it costs just as much to dip it as it does to media strip it or anything else, and it gets all of the rust off of it. Especially all of the little places that you can't get to. I am planning on doing this sometime this summer (it rains a lot in Portland and I don't want my naked cab getting rained on before I get a chance to put primer on it). I know what you see here isn't a whole lot of progess but it's some and I'm too frickin' excited to not show anyone I will keep adding to this as I go. Attached Images __________________ -Greg My Chevy trucks, past and present: 1962 C10 SB Fleetside 1964 C10 LB Fleetside BBW 1966 C10 SB Fleetside 1966 C10 SB Fleetside BBW 1968 C10 SB Fleetside 1971 C10 LB Fleetside 1971 C10 SB Fleetside 1972 C10 SB Fleetside Cheyenne 1972 C10 SB Fleetside Cheyenne Super 1972 C10 LB Fleetside Cheyenne Super 1974 C20 Cheyenne 1979 K5 Blazer Cheyenne 1982 K10 SB Fleetside Custom Deluxe 1982 K10 SB Fleetside Scottsdale 1986 C10 SB Fleetside Silverado 2008 Silverado 1500 4x4 Last edited by silvertonguedevil; 01-16-2005 at 10:51 PM.

01-17-2005, 01:14 AM	#4
vk_chevy Registered User Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Olympia, WA Posts: 231	Who is gonna do your dipping and how much? __________________ 72 Chevy C20 Longhorn 72 Chevy, K20 Custom Camper 67 Chevy, LWB, C20, 350/350, PS, PB, 65 Jag MKII

01-17-2005, 02:40 AM	#5
silvertonguedevil Senior Member Join Date: May 2004 Location: Seaside, Oregon Posts: 1,789	A place here in Portland called American Metal Cleaning. They will do the cab for $600 and the doors for $140 each. They will also do an iron phosphate coating which will allow the primer to stick afterwards (without having to etch the surface by hand) for an additional $250. __________________ -Greg My Chevy trucks, past and present: 1962 C10 SB Fleetside 1964 C10 LB Fleetside BBW 1966 C10 SB Fleetside 1966 C10 SB Fleetside BBW 1968 C10 SB Fleetside 1971 C10 LB Fleetside 1971 C10 SB Fleetside 1972 C10 SB Fleetside Cheyenne 1972 C10 SB Fleetside Cheyenne Super 1972 C10 LB Fleetside Cheyenne Super 1974 C20 Cheyenne 1979 K5 Blazer Cheyenne 1982 K10 SB Fleetside Custom Deluxe 1982 K10 SB Fleetside Scottsdale 1986 C10 SB Fleetside Silverado 2008 Silverado 1500 4x4

01-17-2005, 03:05 AM	#6
HeavyD Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Wakaw, Sask, Canada Posts: 3,179	Man that looks great. You got the truck for free too! Unreal. Make sure you keep posting progress pics..I like seeing the vehicle in stages as it is being restored. __________________ "You can take the man out of PA, but you can't take PA out of the man"

01-17-2005, 03:24 AM	#7
CHEVY & GMC FOREVER Registered User Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: New Lenox,IL Posts: 306	that is to cool that a beauty like that was free, you are very lucky now let's see what you can make of it. I can't wait to see it finished keep us all posted also nice work on removing all of that stuff from the cab and cleaning it up.

01-17-2005, 09:10 PM	#8
68w/sbc406 Got Light Emitting Diode? Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Newberg, OR Posts: 2,485	you got the most important thing done. its in a garage. now i see how you got the rear jacked up to check for posi, i thought you were going crazy and worked on it in the freezing rain __________________ 1968 1/2 ton 2wd lwb 6 lug disc and bags up front. Next c notch and rear bags '02 Chevy Silverado LT ext cab short bed 2WD 5/7 drop on 22's(the family car) 1993 Cherokee work ride/weekend wheeler

01-17-2005, 09:20 PM	#9
silvertonguedevil Senior Member Join Date: May 2004 Location: Seaside, Oregon Posts: 1,789	Yeah, I would've been really mad to find out that it wasn't a posi if I was out in the rain. __________________ -Greg My Chevy trucks, past and present: 1962 C10 SB Fleetside 1964 C10 LB Fleetside BBW 1966 C10 SB Fleetside 1966 C10 SB Fleetside BBW 1968 C10 SB Fleetside 1971 C10 LB Fleetside 1971 C10 SB Fleetside 1972 C10 SB Fleetside Cheyenne 1972 C10 SB Fleetside Cheyenne Super 1972 C10 LB Fleetside Cheyenne Super 1974 C20 Cheyenne 1979 K5 Blazer Cheyenne 1982 K10 SB Fleetside Custom Deluxe 1982 K10 SB Fleetside Scottsdale 1986 C10 SB Fleetside Silverado 2008 Silverado 1500 4x4



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