1968 Gmc ground up restoration
 

hello i am new to chevytrucks.com and i joined as soon as i found this site, tons of great info.Here is my son's first truck it is a 1968 Gmc 3/4 ton camper special. paid $1,600.00 for it and we are doing a ground up restoration.

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Welcome ,thats a very nice truck to start on ,looks very solid .

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Welcome from a little further up north

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My favorite color and a 4 eyed truck! I would have jumped on it too.

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thanks like the 4 eyed too, my first restoration project was 20 years ago with a 1972 Gmc jimmy which i still have.

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Welcome to the forum from Spanaway! Musta taken a long time to find all the license plates! The truck looks like a nice survivor too.

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Welcome from Texas! Nice 4-eyed project, keep the pics coming......

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thanks and yes the license plate shingling took about 5 years.

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Welcome to the board and enjoy your restoration on the truck!

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Great looking GMC!

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we started this restoration July 2014 with removing the two layers of plywood to expose the lovely holy bed. bryce even had grandpa help a bit. the saws all works great to remove rusted bolts. had to remove two saddle tanks on was bolted straight to the rotted bed and the second one had a steel plate on top of the rotted bed. the drivers saddle tank was full of very brown gas.

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with the bed removed we found out this truck has a pull out bumper. also found picture of Bryce's truck and my 1972 gmc jimmy.

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good lookin truck! :metal:

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Welcome from just south of you in Olympia! That is a great looking truck and looks like you guys are really off and running. I'm going to be dealing with the same issue of the saddle tanks. Mine also has them and I dread when I need to pull them off to clean it up.

Best of luck with your build!

Joe

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Removed outer cowl to find some nice mouse bedding. Bryce is working on removing the front end. Start of more rust as we start to take apart the truck.

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So i am loading photo's from last summer to to try and get caught up to what we are doing on the truck now. So the end of July was when we got the front end remove and the by the end of Aug. out came the motor.

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Great truck, great project, keep the pics coming!

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Great looking truck.

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Nice project. I love the 4-eyes too.

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Nice truck. Really like the Union 76 sign on your shop. My dad worked for/retired from a division of Union Oil.

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Thanks JJR, I collect gas station memorabilia my shop if full of gas station items. How do you get the list of your vehicles to show up on the post?

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Looks like i have some fair amount of rust to deal with. I was trying to find another cab with little or no rust in the lower cowl but not having any luck. Found 4 trucks in a wrecking yard but nothing i want to work with. Does anyone know of or have a better 68 cab for sale?

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Great looking truck! Has it spent its entire life in Washington? Quite a bit of rust eh. Just an hour or so north of you in Sedro Woolley. Those pick were definitely not taken in the last few weeks. Way too dry. ;) Chuck

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i parted a truck a few years ago that had a good cab.i just messaged the guy to see if he stil has it. you might check with frank in olympia,or wes at classic heartbeat.. did ya look at south hill auto wrecking? does it have to be a big window?