1970 short wide (official project thread)

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Buying this truck for a project isn't a starting point for me...it's taking care of unfinished business. My dad got a 1978 chevy swb new his junior year of high school. It was a hopped up nice running beautiful black truck. I remember going to sonic, driving it in the pasture, and telling my friends how it would one say be mine. That "one day" finally came when I turned 14. The truck had been put to pasture so my dad and I drug it to the shop and started work restoring. About day 3, my dad lost his temper, crawled out from under the truck throwing wrenches and kicking the truck. He over sprung the passenger door, then slammed it shut and caved the side in. Then he walked home. We never worked on it again. I didn't have the knowledge or resources to knowledge like today with the internet, so I had no idea how to do all the work. A few months passed and my granddad sold the truck to get it out of his way. I still miss that truck and I have tried tracking it down through the DMV and court house to no avail. The truck is gone.
Not getting to restore that truck with Dad was a tender spot on my soul for a long time. Then one day I got married and had a son. He is almost 4 and when I saw a 1970 chevy while browsing Craigslist one day, I decided right then and there that changing starts with me. So I bought the truck. My boy loves it. He stands on the seat and "drives to town". Every bolt that's easy to get to while taking the truck apart, I have broken and then let him finish removing. He loves "helping". I hope someday he drives this truck in the pasture, thinks it sounds cool, and maybe even goes on a date in it. But even if he doesn't, it won't be because I wasn't patient with him.