Finally beginning the restore of my 1968 C 10 shortbed stepside truck

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This truck was bought NEW in 1967 in PA by my moms 2nd husband, they were divorced at the time, he dropped dead 3 months after buying it, the truck was put into the garage area of a building he owned along with all other kinds of stuff and covered with an army tent. He had a large estate which was fought over by his siblings and children for over 20 years. In the meantime a lousy lawyer oversaw it, whenever he needed to sell something to pay taxes he called my mother in a panic. Around 1980 he called and begged for help , she bought the building the truck was in and all its contents, truck included.

It had under 3000 miles on it. One of my older brothers tried to drive it and could never get use to it, his lasting mark was a slice through the body part right below the driver side windshield near the door and fender when he hit a trash dumpster. The truck went back into a garage until i pulled it out in 1984 to drive around as a firewood collector and hunting truck, i was 14, didn't take it on the state roads, just around my mothers property.

I slowly fixed it and used it as a daily driver from 1986 to 1996, left it with 33,000 miles on it and in kinda rough shape. The truck was always owned on paper by my mothers business for insurance purposes. I had a lot of wrecks with other cars when i was young.

So i moved to San Diego from PA in 1996 and left the truck in moms driveway. She died in 2001. My brother took over her business and was executor of her estate. He agreed to let the truck sit at the property in a garage until i was ready to do something with it. He ran her business into the ground a few years later and held an auction of all assets. I bought the truck prior to the auction for $200.

I was due to inherit X amount of dollars from our mothers estate and he and his lawyer decided to lie - cheat - steal their way out of it, so i filed a lawsuit, actually 3 different ones. He still held title to the truck though, i wasn't slick enough to get the title first i guess, it was a deal done over the phone from CA to PA and i mailed a check.

So, i had the truck "stolen" in the middle of the night and hid at a friends place in PA. My brother didn't care but he also refused to turn over title. Our lawyers are finally coming to a conclusion over the whole mess. 2 months ago i heard from an old friend who said he was into restoring vehicles and wanted to know what i evr did with the truck. We talked and he is going to begin restoration, a Frame - UP job.

So i called the other friend where the truck WAS SUPPOSE TO BE and his mom said .......................... I sent that P.O.S. to the scrap yard 6 months ago. I was heartbroke, i began tryign to find it and did, it is still there in PA, only thing missing is the radiator.

My restore buddy picks it up next week and will begin the long and slow restore process.

I will drop in pics and more info when i have time


He is going to put in a Chevy 350 engine and new tranny, I have the original 6 cyl engine and tranny and don't know what to do with it. Some things i need are:

Radiator

all new rear body parts for 1968 C 10 step side

a very good quality driver door or just outside "skin"

2 trailing or swing arms

the engine was never removed or rebuilt, it is as original as you can get, about 33,000 miles on it, tranny is 3 speed manual

it is reported to have run OK, no smoke, or any odd sounds in 2005 and the tranny operated correctly as well.

The restore will occur around East Stroudsburg PA, if you know any good parts places or junkyards than please let me know