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GASoline71 02-04-2010 04:21 PM

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1972 GMC 1500 Super Custom... yarded out of a field in Snohomish WA. Here is the way it looked when I brought it home...

Gary

GASoline71 02-04-2010 04:23 PM

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Then I shoved it into the tiny garage in the dump I was living in at the time...

GASoline71 02-04-2010 04:25 PM

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Then commenced to tear it apart from the firewall forward...

GASoline71 02-04-2010 04:27 PM

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My old man gave me some cool ET 5-window slots to put on the truck... they cleaned up nice!

GASoline71 02-04-2010 04:29 PM

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More... in the tny garage...

GASoline71 02-04-2010 04:31 PM

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Engine and tranny out... tore engine down...

GASoline71 02-04-2010 04:33 PM

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Transmission... before and after rebuild...

GASoline71 02-04-2010 04:35 PM

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Engine goes back together...

GASoline71 02-04-2010 04:35 PM

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More...

GASoline71 02-04-2010 04:36 PM

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Engine all purty...

GASoline71 02-04-2010 04:39 PM

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Removed heater box, and cleaned it up and reinstalled it with new gaskets and new heater core...

GASoline71 02-04-2010 04:40 PM

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Cleaned up firewall, degreased and repainted front clip. I purposely left the firewall with the overspray from the undercaoting and such...

GASoline71 02-04-2010 04:43 PM

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Engine and tranny go back in...

GASoline71 02-04-2010 04:45 PM

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Some painting and a new aluminum radiator... also cleaned up and painted the original power brake booster... new master cylinder.

GASoline71 02-04-2010 04:49 PM

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Carb, plug wires, and distributor go in... I now have an MSD Pro Billet HEI in it... but this got me by for awhile...

GASoline71 02-04-2010 04:51 PM

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New hoses, belts, new engine wire harness, and new front end wire harness. Headers installed. Also installed new plastic harness channels... inner and outer fenders (replaced pass side inner with aftermarket), and new battery tray and battery

GASoline71 02-04-2010 04:54 PM

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BFG Radial T/A's on old school ET 5-window slots... :metal:

GASoline71 02-04-2010 04:55 PM

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Old school lookin' Sunpro Tach...

GASoline71 02-04-2010 04:58 PM

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Here is how it looked the day I drove it out of the garage... just goes to show, you can clean up an old farm truck, and make it turn heads... even with limited space in a super tiny garage, and on a tight budget... :gmc2:

I've done more to it now... still need to lower it, and put a decent exhaust on it... but this thing hauls... and has been a fun project over the last 4 years...

My shop buddy... my 12 year old Chocolate Lab... Yukon. He worked hard on this project too! :lol:

Gary

mjensen 02-04-2010 10:21 PM

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That has to be the quickest build I've every seen :)

Looks great!

oldblue1968chevy 02-04-2010 11:00 PM

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Looks like dangit in the 1st pic comepared to after shot..

That engine bay looks KILLER wat paint did ya use?

Any specs on the motor?

That looks GREAT!!!!!!! Good job!

GASoline71 02-05-2010 12:16 AM

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Originally Posted by mjensen (Post 3780591)
That has to be the quickest build I've every seen :)

Looks great!

Thanks! It actually took about 4 years... :)

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Originally Posted by oldblue1968chevy (Post 3780698)
Looks like dangit in the 1st pic comepared to after shot..

That engine bay looks KILLER wat paint did ya use?

Any specs on the motor?

That looks GREAT!!!!!!! Good job!

Everything black in the engine bay and on the frame is satin black chassis paint made by Duplicolor.

Engine is the original 1972 4-bolt main 350 (.030 over), stock crank and rods with Speed-pro 10:1 Hyper flattop pistons, Stock 2.02 heads (with some mild porting), Lunati 292 Bracketmaster cam and Lunati lifters, Roller rockers, Cloyes double roller timing chain, Heddman Headers, Edelbrock RPM air-gap, Holley 3310 (750cfm) blueprinted and benchflowed by Lyle Winters racing in Tacoma, WA. There is a stock HEI ignition in it in the pictures... but there is an MSD Pro-billet HEI with rev limiter in it now...Roughly makes 400 hp around 5,600 RPM's.

I rebuilt the TH350 myself, and installed a B&M shift kit in it. 2,800 RPM stall converter.

Goes pretty quick for a truck. The best part about it is when people hear it they want to see the engine. When I open the hood... people aren't prepared to see an engine that clean in an old work truck... :) Which is exacxtly the look I was going for.

It's one of those projects that will be forever ongoing... always tinkering with it. One of my buddies gave it the nickname "Creeping Death"... after a Metallica song. :metal:

Thanks for the comments guys...

Gary

nuke1 02-05-2010 12:41 AM

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That is a gorgeous truck, great looking, original, but powerful, i like how you did it.

chevy88 02-05-2010 04:48 AM

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Your rims look great, what did you clean them up with?

72BlckButy 02-05-2010 01:39 PM

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Nice work, turned out really nice!


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