70c10-08's 1970 Chevrolet C/10 build

[70c10-08]

Well it all started back in January 2008 and a buddy of mine just bought a 81 Scottsdale 10 with a profesionally built 383 stroker for like 300 bucks the engine was the only good thing on it lol this thing had rust where u didnt even think it could form but he had a complete rust free body waiting for it anyway back in high school thats all hed talk about and by March Id fianlly had it D****t I need a truck of my own to work on and by that time I knew what i wanted after seeing many 67-72 Chevys and GMCs in Classic Trucks Magazine to me it says its rough and spartan like a truck yet have the access to car features like a/c or p.s. and still have a factory truck so I went looking through The Wheels For You magazine and found one near Lincoln it said it was partially restored had a TH350 with a 307 and they wanted $1500 for it my bro in law and I went there we gave it the lookover and it looked fine for a project truck so we test drove it and my bro in law tried to adjust the seat he did but it didnt latch so when we tried the brakes I thought we were gonna die lol it drove ok the brakes were terrible we just thought that was tipical for manual brakes (later on i found out all the drums were shot and craked all the way around) i did end up with the truck as a graduation gift from my mom partially restored? wrongfully restored is more like it the p.o. didnt know bodywork or how to weld or even how to rivit in that matter i peeled back the sh***y cheap carpet to find out that they cut out some of the rust not all got rid of some of the cab braces and rivited the patch panels in im like omg what have i gotten myself into the steel bed was rough on the inside but I didn't cut my losses I stayed and am staying hard at it I went to College for autobody repair so this ol truck of mine has been a good thing to learn on got a new bed tailgate and a 1967 small window cab from Colorado and a $35 N.O.S. grille
It came from the factory with a TH350 and a 307 manual brakes and steering and an am radio my improvements are 4 wheel power disc brakes no tilt manual steering tremic 5 spd no a/c f**d 9 inch rear and a 383 stoker
BTW heres a pic taken March 24th, 2008 the day after i got it as a graduation gift sorry if my description is a bit lengthy and the second pic is the 307 with 190k miles on it

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Here is a pic of the well used bed that was rusty and the cab with no floor braces

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The 1st pic is one of the four 73-76 hubcaps before I sandblasted them to paint them the second pic was taken 2 weeks after I acquired the truck after I found out I had no brakes I thought well I'll just tear it all down while I'm at it and do a full blown resto on it

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Here's a pic of my bed o parts lol the other pics are of my disassembled cab the last pic can you say quality body work? lol cab corners with rivets and bondo

[low&slow]

Looks like a good start. I'm in.

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Here's some more pics of the tear down and engine removal process

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Here's pics of the long bed frame with nearly everything above the frame removed and the last one is the old 190,000 mile 307 small block that will not haunt the streets again sure it ran good but its too small for the job I have it will eventually be on a stand all restored for a display

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quality I mean cough(sh***y)cough bodywork by the p.o.

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Door restoration

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More door resto pics

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Here's the finished doors and door panels as of 2010 now they await paint and installation

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Fenders restoration

[jmking9]

Looking good. Nice work!

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Here's pics of the hood restoration

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Here's my C/20 parts truck it came with a 4 speed and a 350 with an oil bath air cleaner I took what I needed off of it for my C/10 and I'm using the back half as a trailer and everything from the dash on front will be a C/20 bbq smoker and I will do a build thread on that when the time comes

[low&slow]

That's an awesome idea for a bbq. I was going to do that last summer before I took the front clip out the local swap meet and sold 90% of the clip. May just do that with my soon to be other clip once you get that thread going. I'll wait for that time

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Front bed panel fab yes it's supposed to have design on the front but nobody's really gonna notice and people who do won't say a thing

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More front bed panel pics

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Sorry the pics of my build are not in order here are some I found of the only rust that was on my doors

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Saw an ad at a local John Deere dealer for an auction at a tire shop one day and it just spoke to me something inside my soul said go there may be something there that you'll think you just can't live without I went there and found this NOS 1969/1970 grill both inner and outer bought it for $35 bucks yes thirty five bucks I've learned that its not a true NOS but its a day two NOS day one would've had the black stripe go all the way though from one side to the next day two NOS's stop after the turn signals the made in the USA GM grill is date 1992

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Bought this cab from a member off the site here it came from Colorado it came off a 1967 C/20 cst equipped with a small window it had a small block auto tranny a/c triple tanks and buddy buckets all were removed before I acquired the cab

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I've been asked why build a truck like this? I guess I'm attracted to the things that are like what I grew up with nobody in my family had a 67-72 when I was growing up. My family had 73-87's and 88-98's and being that my dad had a construction company we owned the base model trucks I find them cool to me a real truck doesn't have bucket seats a/c power steering or tilt wheel auto tranny is optional though here are some pics of my cabs a/c delete conversion and a manual tranny conversion

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Here's pics of the bed assembly I went the no hassle route you could say I also added an NOS bedside step to the drivers side