[par4tom]

Background on This Truck - this truck was purchased by my dad back in May of 1966, and has been in the family since then. During this time, it has seen many years of use as a farm truck and has gone through two or three medium restorations.

Since about 1998, the truck has sat in my dad's garage and was being used as a storage bin for bicycles, toys and various varment droppings.

Back in 2012, my dad had had some health issues and so on a lark, I unloaded all the junk, pushed it out onto the driveway and proceeded to clean it up a bit. Had I known on that day the direction this truck in my life would take I probably would've taken a couple of pictures or pushed it off a bridge!!!

However, like a lot of you guys out there, you never really know what you're getting into until it is too late and you've been sucked into this serious addiction that should require massive amounts of counseling or public floggings.

My original intent was simply clean it up a bit fix a few carburetor and vacuum leaks and get that thing running again. However, as you will soon see I was not successful in stopping at this point.

Background on me - I am 53 years young and have loved cars and trucks just like a lot of you guys out there going back to the days when I was a kid. I actually learned to drive on this truck at about age 9 or 10 when my dad would take me out to teach me how to drive.

During the 1980s, I fell in love with Chevy trucks and my first truck was a 1975 Chevy stepside. Also during the early 80s, car stereos were becoming all the rage and I was always tinkering.

In the late 1990s, I built my first competition sound system and competed for a couple of years. I was fortunate enough to go undefeated on the competition sound so good here out on the West Coast during that time. I always felt that there was a higher degree of satisfaction when you did the work yourself versus jobbing it out to a shop someplace.

Somebody must've liked my work because in 2000 my car was featured at the consumer electronics show in Las Vegas. A couple of years later I was asked to build a truck for CES and while at CES I was asked by a producer from one of the FAST ANd FURIOUS movies to build a truck for their upcoming movie.

Now… Before anyone thinks that I am some hot-shot builder I can assure you that I am not. I'm just an enthusiast who loves great cars and trucks and loves what you guys are doing here on this forum. I hope I can give back to some here on this forum as much as it has given me.

Sound systems do not appear to be a the most popular topic here on this forum. I'm hoping that more guys will take an interest in creating incredible sound systems in these incredible trucks through this thread...

So without further ado and a lot of detail work still to go here is my build thread...

God's Best To Each One of You!

Tom

Early pic November 2012 - bit of rust along with 52 years of oil, grease and dirt