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Originally Posted by WilliamFd55
You have good taste  Looks a lot like my previous truck. You'll get that much more gratification, knowing you built it every time you hit the road! |
Definitely true! Even though its still pretty rough, and sometimes a bit sketchy, I enjoy driving this a LOT more than anything else in the fleet. Funny thing is, I was never a truck guy, or a Chevy guy. I always had Buick muscle cars and would just maintain them/minor upgrades (springs and shocks, etc.) I bought the truck because I got the LS for free, and it was the cheapest thing I could find in driving condition and was one of the easier LS Swaps to perform. Now I love the truck, as do my girls. It was going to just be a ratty street/strip truck but now its going to be a nice-ish daily that I can learn and test things on. No real direction otherwise, just whatever I feel like. Slapped together 5.3 that will eventually get a turbo? sure. NA 6.0? Sure. Paint and body? Why not, whole gamut of stuff to learn there - lots of complicated dents and some minor rust.
This winter its getting tubular control arms (not a coilover conversion) and a brake over haul (just stock front disks and new shoes for the rear) - and I'll fix the floor pans, and hopefully do up a better exhaust now that I'm more comfortable working with metal tubing and welding.
Sort of a learn as I go project. The better half wants a 68-73 Nova so I'm hunting for one of those, which I'll attempt to do as a much nicer and more directed build, but for now its just learning and ripping on the truck.