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Old 01-02-2011, 06:15 PM   #27
Jacfourteen
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Re: Wannabees Unite!!

My wife has a 41 GMC 3/4 ton flatbed, that she just kinda fell into. Her grandpa found it in a field and traded some well pump work for it, and restored it before he passed away from cancer. He only got to take it to a couple of shows before he died, but atleast he won a trophy for best original truck at one of them. My wife's grandma knew that my wife loved the truck so she gave it to her. It's still parked at her grandma's house (about 2 miles away from where we live), and we take it to as many shows as we can. I had never worked on a truck as old as this one before, and it has really been a learning experience doing the maintainance and repairs on this old truck, not to mention learning how to shift the unsynced tranny without grinding (my wife is still working on that one!). Before we fell into this one, I always thought these trucks were cool but never had a desire to have one but it really is cool to drive to the gas station or where ever in something so old, it gets alot of attention.
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68 3/4 ton (Project)-350 Small Block, .030 over, 10:1 comp, 3998993 heads, C3BX edelbrock intake, comp cams XE268, Holley 670 SA, long tube headers, dual flow 40's, E-fan, Alum rad, currently under the knife getting shortened and bagged build thread
41 3/4 ton (wife's)-flatbed, fully restored to original
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