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Originally Posted by K-TEN
My 61 K10 was being restored over a very lengthy period of time. At about year 7, I spied a 1945 GMC 1/2 ton on the side of a major road up here. It was being sold by a moving company. The truck was complete and I had never seen a GMC of that era in person before. The truck was running, complete and in decent shape. I called him and made an offer and bought it. Spent the next several years in making it better. It now has a 302 inline 6 with an NOS 3 speed and a Truckstell torquetube overdrive in it. 3.55 R&P out back. It still runs 6 volts and has it's original Huck brakes. I think that the original brake liines were replaced by me. At the time, they looked to be copper and that's a no-no. Well, they were copper and that's what was used from the factory. Those lines were made differently than plumbing water line is now.
So, now the truck can hit 100mph. It can cruise over 400 miles between fillups thanks to an auxiliary fuel tank behind the seat. Handles well with a sway bar and radials. And it still hauls the leaves and brush to the dump very week. I do get a few looks from people when I bring that truck down to the leave dump!
PS The 61 is complete, but it's the '45 that gets driven everywhere. I take it from NH to PA once every year. 800 miles round trip-2 fillups.
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If you have a '45 than your the only other person i am aware of besides me that had/has one, oh i know ther has to be more but i have not seen a any personally.
I bought a '45 way back about '84 for $300, pretty rough shape but drivable, barly! I had it about 7 years before i lost hope that i could ever restore or rod it, i had such a limited knowledge base (before internet) and finally lost interest, sold it for $350 because i wanted room in my garage, i have no shop, then about 5 years later i started kicking myself in the butt for it and vowed to never sell out of another vehicle no matter what. I heard the guy did a full on restoration to it and its now worth a lot of coin.. Sigh!