63 C20 longbed stepside

[Jcrvault]

Hi everyone I've got a 63 c20 longbed stepside
It was my great grandfathers truck and decided it was mine when I was 3 years old (I'm now 20) I put off working on it throughout high school because I had other projects and limited time but now while in college I've began the long process of making into the truck I've always dreamed it would be.

Over the past 1.5 years I've done a partial restoration to get it on the road.
So far:
-Lt9 350 swapped from an 86 Sierra 3500
-stock rebuilt quadrajunk
-(summit k1104 cam in box to be put in)
-block hugger shorty headers
-3" to true dual side exit through jegs chambered mufflers
-Original 3 on the tree brand new heavy duty clutch (won't last long) nv4500 planned for this summer
-unsure which rear diff it's a big 12 bolt
-3 chamber aluminum radiator rated to 500hp
-replaced front fender bottoms, rockers, cab corners
- rolled my own sections for the drivers floor that was rotted out and made filler pieces for the passenger foot well
-minor bodywork but nowhere near done
-rattle can rust-oleum matte black body, gloss bumpers (for now)
-16x8 235/75/16 front, 16x10 265/75/16 rear
-rx7 headlights with 8000k 55w HIDs

Future/this summer:
Do the body work right
Repaint body metallic gunmetal with gloss black trim
Vortec heads or port stock heads
High rise intake
Holly carb
Break power booster

[1963c-10]

Great looking 63 longbed. Glad to see you started a thread and looking forward to more pics and updates on the progress.

Very cool to have the family history you have with the truck.

[TJ's Chevy]

Good lookin long bed stepper.

[Jcrvault]

Thanks! Its come a long way and there is a lot more to come, Ill slowly be posting pictures from when I started till now. I have a few hundred between my phone, and various digital camera cards.

The build starts here 12/28/2013

First time out of the garage since 1997

Trailer ride

Where she sat till running again

[Jcrvault]

First job tackled, not the best solution but it works.


Next onto the drivers rocker and floor, at first i thought it would only need a piece of angle and a patch piece on the rocker but it was rotted all the way through


Decided go cut out the whole rocker it would have been too much to patch it.

Luckily my uncle had a new replacement rocker from his 64 GMC K10

[Jcrvault]

Test Fitment of the replacement rocker



Cut out the outer drivers floor which was in rough shape and welded in an extended piece of angle to the front cab support, also boxed in the top of the cab support



side view of the angle I added

[Jcrvault]

Rolled some plate on an english wheel to get all the angles correct








Test fit of the new rocker after the floor welded in

[TJ's Chevy]

Good metal work bud.

[Jcrvault]

thanks!, I'm Interning at Eastwood this summer so I haven't had much time to upload but I'll have more on soon

[Jcrvault]

more build pics

[Jcrvault]

agian more pics

[Jcrvault]

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[Jcrvault]

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[Jcrvault]

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[TJ's Chevy]

Looks good!