1970 C-10 Stepside Build Progress Thread

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Hey all, I bought a project that was in progress. Guy I bought it from had moved and needed everything out of the other house he was renting by the 31st of that month. I had approached him about selling it many other times but on the 30th of the month, he was faced with a decision.... Put the truck in costly storage or sell it. So... right place, right time I bought it. The guy I bought it from had never done a restoration before and I think he was stunned at how much work it was going to be. The very interesting thing about this truck is the sheer amount of small detail parts he had collected up over the past 4 years. Strangely, its stuff that I would consider finishing touches. Its almost as if he enjoyed catalog surfing and shopping but never wanted to buy anything BIG because either he'd have to store it, or it would cost too much at the time. So along with the truck came about 10 boxes of new parts and 3 huge tubs of the old parts he had bagged and labeled.

Here are a few things I know about the truck. It was a running and driving truck when he started pulling it apart. It had recently had the transmission rebuilt. The engine runs good. It is missing the following parts: the windshield (cracked when he removed it), the seat (was stolen from the upholstery shop he took it to), and the keys (guess that means i'll be sawzalling the switch out of it)

Here are a few pics of the day I bought it. All the parts were scattered around in the bed of the tow truck and another truck that followed.