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When we inherited the truck it didn't have the original wheels with it, instead it had some slot mags. From what I understand is if it were a two tone truck it had wheels that matched the main color and if it was a solid color the wheels were black. In my case they were originally red. Have the old family photos to prove it. Were mainly focused on making the truck stock but the wheels we thought would look better white. If you have some white wheels I bet they're off of a different year of truck for mine were.

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I went for a ride with my son and his friend across the flowerbulb fields.

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:metal:

Beautiful picture babyblue!

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^^great pic

Took a load of empties back to the country store, nice day for a drive. Truck ran great. Fiddled with my light switch (fresh off the victory of getting my headlights working), and got the dome light operable.

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What no pics?

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I created a new license plate bracket. I have never liked the original location. It is all mock up parts. Have not put it on the truck yet.

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Good idea with the bracket. Waiting to see it on the truck see how it looks. Should be nice.

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Used the truck to carry a couple bucket loads of mulch and plants over the weekend. The new owner of the nursery couldn't believe I was going to dump it in the bed lol. I did lay a tarp down to help though. But she still gets used as a truck from time to time.

Chris

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Trucks sweet all loaded up, yard looks plush and your boy looks like great helper! Diggin old Glory flying on the house too, nice pics!

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Thanks man! Yeah Carson loves to be outside doing anything. And gotta have Old Glory flying on the porch. I'm wanting to put air on the truck for this summer. Already starting to get a little toasty.

Chris

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Took my truck to work with me. Sparks are flying.

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Here is a picture

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I'm researching new motor options and the skinniest 33 inch tires I can get!

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Visited relatives and then went to a saloon in Hell, MI.

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So yesterday, I was at a shopping mall. I was driving the old '65 Chevy because the water pump went out of the damn Dodge. Back of Ol Blue had about 10 cases of bottled water, some other ****. As I was just about to leave, a bunch of Japanese tourists came up and ask if they could take pictures. I'm thinking "Oh, of the truck. :lol:".
None of them could speak English very well. ;).
So I got out and let them take pics, which drew in some other people, who started asking questions- What year? How's it run?, ect.
It was the weirdest thing. Ol Blue is a tourist attraction.

Pic of Ol Blue:

https://s6.postimg.org/56dmgvw8h/image.jpg

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This time relatives visited us.

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Spent a few hours stripping my passenger door down to the bare metal along with the door jamb. Took care of some rust issues before they get out of hand. Replaced the door check, and wire wheeled my sill plates and got them repainted.

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Spent a few hours stripping my passenger door down to the bare metal along with the door jamb. Took care of some rust issues before they get out of hand. Replaced the door check, and wire wheeled my sill plates and got them repainted. I also found out my Fremont Suburban was sprayed with the rust red primer before the Light Blue.

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Worked on the brake pedal push rod and setting the booster to master cylinder clearance. All set up on my bench, so when I get the truck back from paint jail install should be a breeze.

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She made her First Cruise Night Debut after 11 yrs.

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Took it out to an autocross with the local Porsche club chapter. I had a blast out there!

https://youtu.be/HWeNC8rFHX8

https://youtu.be/0UmdmEzzpEY

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Beautiful GMC! What is the name of that color of Blue? I like it.

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Canyon Blue and Olympic White, I like this shade better than the Varsity Blue from '60 - I felt it was too dark for my taste.

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started out with a good weekend.....after changing out a bad fuel pump that has kept the old girl sitting for far to long, went to start her to find the battery dead....no biggie. Charged her up and nothing, battery was dead. So after another $150 bucks for a new battery finally got her running and spent the weekend quite happy, drove her to get her washed and gassed and whatnot. Started to drive her to work this morning and almost there heard a huge boom from under the hood and smoke started pouring out. After looking under the hood, the upper radiator hose burst, completely blew in half and sent fluid everywhere. Another $40 for new hose/fluid. Now I get to wash out the engine bay tonight because I cant tell if the smell is coming from the fluid that covered my engine block or if I messed something up when it blew.:waah:

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Is it a 1960 color or what year is it? I definately want my 65 Suburban that color of Blue( Wife even likes it which is a good thing) lol

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Mid year 1960, and all year 1961. I have the paint chips card somewhere. The pain ship in Mississippi was able to do a direct match from the old paint code. I have no metallic in it.

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Thanks. I looked on www.autocolorlibrary.com for years 57-63 and they don't have it listed. I like the fact it's a solid color, as I don't care for metallics.

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Had a productive weekend working on the truck.

New speedo gear and housing, new speedo cable,
Finished aftermarket gauge wiring and installation,
New fuel lines, PO ran rubber throughout the truck
New shocks all the way around
New rear coils (stock height) PO had melted the old ones to lower the truck. Also had to weld in a new base for the passenger coil due to some rust.

Need to put on a parking brake and should be road ready.

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My mistake, its a '59 color

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Buda63, love the 2 tone scheme on a stepside!

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Thanks jbgroby. I appreciate you looking that up for me.

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With the threat of rain this past Saturday, the local Cruise-in canceled out, so I took her to dinner at Rips on the Lake in Mandeville. I was able to get a good picture looking down.

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Burnouts!

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Drove it to my school shop so I could work on my 81 Cadillac that needs exhaust manifold bolts drilled out.

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Slow day at work. Started the process of trying to get the 235 to run.

Carb kit and points should be all I need to make er run

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Drove her to the Lake for some fresh pictures.

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I finally finished my engine....406 cubic inch, scat crank, eagle 5.7 rods,
9.1 Keith Black pistons, comp cams 256 xe, gm vortec heads, edelbrock rpm intake, 700r4, 3.73 12 bolt gears. I built this engine for strong low end and mid range torque and to run on regular gas because the premium is so expensiive and will keep increasing I am sure. I will know soon if my patriot ceramic headers for a camaro will fit. I have 2 1/2 exhaust and Dynomax mufflers. Hoping for a strong running street truck to drive anywhere.

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She looks great

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Pulled my utility trailer back out of our back property before the rain came.

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Finally found a vacuum guage...new chrome bezel and new face plate.
I have decided the back ground looks better the fawn color instead of the
black. Changed all the bulbs to number 1895 which are brighter than
the 57s. Extended all the wires to make it easy to pull the cluster when needed. After I make sure all is working will install in the dash.