About two years ago I felt the need for a project and started looking at older trucks. My only criteria was that I be able to wrench on it in my small single stall garage in my rented northern Virginia townhouse, and it cost me less than $5k. I was spending most of my efforts looking for a 60's C10 but after going and seeing several hacked up, see through rust buckets I was feeling pretty discouraged. Its crazy what some people call "rust free" and "road worthy". All along I had been discussing my adventures with my brother who had also been traveling around Michigan (my home state) trying to find me a project. He tells me he has a friend who's finally ready to part with a truck he had wanted to buy for the last 15 years and he's going to take our father and go have a look at it. The next thing I know I have these potato quality pictures on my phone that I can't quit looking at:
It was over my budget a bit and just generally bad timing as I was getting married in a couple weeks, but after hearing how enamored my father and brother were with this truck I sold my wife's car (we were planning to do this as it was hardly ever driven and was just costing us a car payment) and told my brother to go pick it up. I had bought an old truck. Sight unseen.
The details known to me so far:
- 55 Chevrolet 3100
- It had been "restored" sometime in the early 70's
- A 283 under the hood origins unknown
- A newer 12 bolt truck rear end again origins unknown
- Power disc brake conversion installed already
- Appeared to have little rust and a few filler spots but generally clean
- Hasn't run or driven in 15 years...
- Came with some spare parts; distributor, instrument cluster, windshield, some other odds and ends.
01-03-2015, 02:34 PM
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