The Cougarines 1972 C20 Build

[TheCougarine]

Hey guys, I though I'd go ahead and make a thread for my truck. I'd been looking for some kind of classic project for what feels like forever and stumbled upon these trucks. Went and looked at this one and got the guy down to 2k and decided to take it.

Its a 72 C20, 350 with a 3 speed auto and new exhaust, including headers of some kind. 68,000 miles on her and the only really bad rust is in the drivers side cab corner so not to bad. Its had a different bed put on it at some point and was resprayed in the factory color.

Since I got it in early september I've mostly just been driving it and enjoying having a truck (My other car is an 06 miata) and I've done a few things to the interior, seat cover, put down some carpet and installed some speakers and an amp so I can have some music.
Right now I've got to replace the passenger rear wheel cylinder and source some older style steel wheels to mount some dog dish hub caps I picked up. Once thats done I'm not sure what I'll focus on next, I'll probably lower the truck at some point but I'm to sure how much of a drop I want so that will have to wait. Anyway, future posts hopefully won't be so long winded but that should catch y'all up.

[70LonghornCST]

Hello from California and welcome to the forums! Great looking truck.

[TheCougarine]

Thank you!

[flashed]

Welcome ,only thing you did wrong so far is not enough pictures of such a nice truck ,would love to see more of it . Im in to see what you do next .

[TheCougarine]

Haha thank you! I do need to take some more pictures for sure

Small update: Got these in the mail today and they are farm fresh.
There are four of them despite the picture and they actually cleaned up really well. I plan to to sand down the gold bow ties on these and respray them blue like the 69-72 hubcaps.

Also turns out it was not the wheel cylinder leaking but the axel seal and its now fixed. As a bonus it turns out when the PO said he had "went through the brakes" he meant he replaced everything so the trucks got new wheel cylinders pads ect. so thats one less thing to worry about for the moment.

[TheCougarine]

A few updates and before/after pics for you guys.
Turned an old rifle box into bed storage

Picked up some of those vinyl letters for the tailgate

And I finally found a set of wheels for the hubcaps I picked up and got them mounted

[flashed]

Very nice ,what is with the X on the front plate ?

[TheCougarine]

its an old "Nixon in '72" campaign plate thats had an X painted through it. Thought it was cool and era correct.

[mcbassin]

Great looking truck!

[TheCougarine]

Thanks man!