Project: The Good, The Bad and The Unappreciated!

[cfan10]

'84 C10 SWB 350/350 up until this year I thought it was a 305 but always said it had a lot of get up for a 305 lol.

I've had this truck since '08 never really drove it much maybe a few times a month then it went into hibernation for almost 5 long years I put her back on the road in '16 only to have it spin a rod bearing...back into hibernation for 2 years this time. My father stole it, a whole bunch of **** is missing or just trashed...but she's back where she belongs with me.
I did keep meticulous records of everything down to the gas receipts.

My plans are simply to take the body down to bare metal, see what abuse I will find...I know the cab has rot-body in the cab corners some pretty bad around the passenger side windshield. Floors are solid no rot, but the firewall behind the distributor looks like rusty cornflakes.

My goal is to learn to weld and fix it right or just let it continue to rot...I have a 4.3 vortec I want to swap in keeping the efi setup, they're gas savers and low maintenance in my experience. I absolutely love them and I've had a 5.7 vortec Suburban and a 5.3 Tahoe and I've seen no one do a 4.3 swap in a square, people talk a lot of junk about 4.3 but I'm building a cruiser not a drag truck.

3/19/2019
I replaced the rod bearings with king oversized can't remember the size. Did this just to be able to move her without it sounding like some monster tap dancing in the engine. I will be using this truck to haul junk from the junkyard or scrap to the scrapyard.

4/26/2019
Scuffed and painted the bumper.

4/27/2019
Tackle driver bedside, and the bondo I found is thick as all hell and for no apparent reason it isn't hiding any horrific body damage.