Fashionable Fever! - 1969 Chevy C10 Build
 

Hey! I've been a member on this site for a few years now searching through threads, asking questions, and looking through threads. I finally am starting a build thread! I've been wanting to buy a 67-72 Chevy since I was very young! I believe I saw one in a magazine and since then I've been in love with them. I own a 1969 Chevy Custom C10 Long Bed 2wd. I bought it in late July of 2009 from a family friend. It came with a 307 4 speed.

Pics to come!

I've been working on this truck off and on for a couple years now. In the last year I finally decided to park the truck and perform a frame off resto on the truck. Earlier this year I began ripping everything off to a rolling chassis. I got the truck sandblasted and finally had it primed and painted by The Foss Shop where I'm from. It took awhile for me to get the truck primed and painted because they were transforming a brand new truck into a work of art for the SEMA show. So all of there other work got put on hold because of it. It was a long wait, but worth all the while! It looks fantastic! I will post pics!

Plans for build :
Disc brakes all around, lowered 2 1/2 ", installing a BBC backed by a tremec 6 speed, bench seat, shaved firewall, no radio, no heater, no a/c, changing my steal bed to a wood bed.

Only things I'm not sure of is the color of the paint and the rims.

Thanks for checking out my build thread!

Ryan

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Can't wait for the pics. Skinds like your off to a good start
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Driving my pickup 25 miles to college! It was a cold ride every morning since my pickup had to sit outside all nite! My other car took the third stall in my parents garage.

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This is of my cab resto in March/April of 2010. I learned from a few of my mistakes... I replaced a lot of the cab such as cab supports, cab corners, rockers, half of the floor. Put in sound deadener, carpet, and had my bench seat redone.

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In the last couple pics I was applying laquer thinner to the frame and naval jelly which cleaned the rust and protected the frame.

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This is me getting the pickup ready to go to The Foss Shop up town and getting the cab corners and rockers primed.

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Putting sound deadener, jute padding and getting the carpet ready to be put in!

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great start !

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can't wait to see more PICS!!!!lmbo..

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This is the BBC I bought on Veterans Day 2010. It's a 454 backed by a TH400. I set it down in the shop and made a big mess! Coolant from the engine was coming out and then on top of that after I drained the oil into a bucket I accidentally swung the tranny into it! Pretty much all the oil from the engine was now on the floor lol. That's what I get for having a cluttered shop.

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I picked up a set of 049 heads for my 454 build. I bought a porting kit and started smoothing out the heads as best I could before they went to the engine shop to get rebuilt.

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Fast forward a year and a half - It took about a year at Quality Engine to build it since I was going to college I had to save up for parts. I had the block align honed, rebore and plate hone, the deck was blocked, and grinded for clearance. It turned out to be a 489. I bought it a Eagle stroker kit for it with a 4.250" crank, 6.385" H beam rods, and 8.7:1 SRP pistons. The camshaft is a Comp Cam 282/288 #XR282HR-10. The heads were CC'd at 109 cc's.

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This is of my frame sitting in the shop my dad and I finally finished up! This was right before I took it to get sandblasted.

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This is the shop that we finished up in 2011. Before 2011 there wasn't any electricity or finished walls or insulation. I wired in a 100 amp service put in a bunch of 120v receptacles and a few 240v receptacles in case of a welder and/or air compressor. Installed a 5.7kw heater. I put in 8' and 4' t8 2 lamp fixtures. We put BC plywood for the ceiling and walls just in case something would hit the wall it wouldn't put a hole there. Painted it white and put rustoleum floor epoxy with a clear coat. It turned out pretty nice! I love the floor now that I don't have to worry about spilling oil! lol

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Nice job on the shop...

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Boy does it look cold there. I could not move around if I had to deal with that kind of weather.

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Did you have trouble with the door not fitting after you cut so much metal out of the floor . all at once.. i see that you did not brace the cab . I cut the same than out of mine and was hoping that your door fit good. no trouble

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I like the garage and the wall are killing.

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In post 4 I said I learned from a few of my mistakes. That was one of them. Lol I didn't think that would happen. I should have braced it. It took a long time to get them to fit. I'll have to work on it more when I start to dig into the cab again. And yes it gets pretty nippy around here!
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Wow it's been awhile since I've posted/updated this project! I went on a little break working on it because I wanted to buy a house so I had to save all my money! I totally gutted the garage and started over. I made it right! :)

I should have taken some pics of when I first got it done- when it was clean ha! Brought my frame from my parents shop (which was in pics above) to my place in Fargo.

Let's see if you can find my frame...

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Here it is! Behind all my junk ha. I actually had the frame painted right after I had it sandblasted in 2011? I can't remember, it's been awhile.

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Finally figured out my Baer disc brakes this fall and got them installed! Pretty happy about it!

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Rebuilt the whole front end with all new moog parts. New moog front springs and I upgraded my factory ubolts on my lower control arm shaft from 1/2" to 9/16" to beef it up a bit. They fit like a glove. Also repainted my control arms.

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Bought a redhead steering gear! :) haven't tested it out yet but the paint looks good! Lol

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Underneath the front suspension.

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Found a little better pic of the garage soon after I got it almost done... And it still is "almost" done haha still need to trim out my windows... It's I believe 24' by 32' with a 20' by 15' add-on on the back. It starts where I installed that header. It's quite a big garage but you know how it goes... I'm already in need of more space! Lol

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I've been tight on money lately since I'm getting married in late April and trying to remodel the house and put money towards my truck as much as I can. It's hard to keep moving forward when you need more expensive parts! But I'm doing odds and ends that don't cost much like trying to redo my aluminum trim pieces. Also prepping to start redoing my front fenders and radiator support and all that.

I've been saving up for awhile and can now start making payments to get that tremec 6 speed magnum I've wanted for so many years. Just made my first payment yesterday! Hopefully mid summer I can have the whole kit and can start moving forward and keep posting to this build thread! :)

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Finally got around to restoring the front sway bar that I bought a couple years ago from the parts board. I took off all the gunk with my angle grinder, primed it, and then sprayed POR 15 top coat on top. Turned out pretty good! I did that with the frame brackets as well. Then for the clamps I just went to GM and bought new ones - boy are those spendy! I went to the local o Reilly's and purchased the moog rubber bushings - those are also getting spendy.

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From that to this...

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Side view

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Next in line is the rear end which includes a brand new rear assembly, new springs, shocks, panhard bar, and disc brakes. Hopefully I'll have some progress in the next couple months... Have to finish off the basement.

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Started prepping for my new rear end assembly by taking out the 12 bolt. Boy were those u bolts a pain!! Actually had to cut one of them to get it out.

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There is the culprit! Prob should have just done that right away with both of them since I was spraying penetrating oil for awhile and using a BFH for an hour or so.

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This is prob why they were a big pain in the butt! All rusted under the helper spring plates. I also noticed it looks like a hair line crack at the back end of the trailing arms. This is the same on both, in the same spot which makes me think it could have been factory, but I'm kinda doubting it. I think I'm gonna just weld them together while I have them out of the truck.

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Gotta wait until Monday to grab my saw zal from work with my diablo blade to cut the bolts of the upper cup of the coil spring. I can't for the life of me get them out! Stuck my impact wrench up there, but had to have a long extension with a deep socket, so I think I lost quite a bit of torque. Still couldn't get the bolt to budge. Thought I had it since the socket started turning, but when I pulled the wrench out the bolt was rounded... Happened to both sides. Only thing I can think of to get inside the frame rail below a bed rail support is the saw zal.

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Look'n Good!!!

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Got my new rear end! Decided on the Dana 60 with 3.73 gears and 5 lug bolt pattern for a bigger variety of wheel choices. Came with a nice new panhard bar as well. Sadly the powder coating got damaged in shipping which means it's gotta go back to get re-done. Haven't had much time to work on it anyways as the wife and I just had a baby.

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Weather is getting nice finally! Been able to spend a little time here and there on body work. Sanded the fender and put a new lower fender patch panel on that was rusted out from the battery acid as most of these are. Turned out pretty well! Still trying to get all the rust and paint sanded from those tight areas and then I can bondo and get the panel sent to the body shop for primer!

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Decided to finally make one of these stands while I'm doing all this body work so I don't ruin my knees and back. Made it out of 1" emt and jack chain. Turned out pretty nice and especially useful for my needs! Cheaper than buying one too! :)

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Congratulations on the house, wife, and baby! Nice work so far. Keep it up!