Project: Daily driver to drive through the weeds

[jays68yak]

So Ive been building this: http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=449547
For the last year. In my horse trading and parts buying I ended up with a beat up short bed, just the bed. Then a few weeks later I ended up with this:

The story I got from the seller was that it had been sitting for several years, 5-8. He installed a target master motor and one day while driving down the freeway it puked all its oil out. He filled it up and drove it home, parking it for it to rust. Literally....rust away. It was parked maybe 2 miles as the crow flies from the ocean. Every morning the ocean salt water due would hit the truck and slowly rust it away. He decided to sell it has he couldnt do anything with it. I think he cried a bit as I pulled away with it.
At first I was just going to part it out....mostly cuz the only good sheetmetal on it was the hood, cowl cover, and grill. The roof was so rusted I thought it was going to fly off on the way home.....then I started thinking....I have a short bed...hmmm...So I pulled the front clip, cab, and bed off. Cut the frame down.


Glued it all back together

Early in the day that I cut the frame down, I took a 5 hour round trip and picked up another truck for its cab. It was a 2wd flat bed that had this on the glove box

The only pic I got of the donor truck was once I cut it in half and got it on the trailer with the rest of the scrap.

So after a long weekend filled with some driving, some cutting, some welding, a lot of bolt removal, and some bolt installing I ended up with this