Pops 68 stepper

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Here we was making good time.. I say we, but this is at the point where my buddy took over... This man lives and breathes these trucks so it made sense to hand the ball off to him.. Motor is pulled. My dad was good with just the front of the frame being cleaned and painted.. However.. I made the call to pull the frame out and have it powder coated.. I knew the overall outcome would be much better... And at this time my father was starting to get a little sickly. So I knew either my brother or I was going to get the truck in the event something happened.

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Here is the frame out and headed to the PC'er.. With this truck having gone thru a resto over 30 years ago.. coming back in over some persons work, you really get a sense of how people cobble stuff together. This truck was originally a 3 speed on the column. However someone decided to use a piece of rebar for some shift linkage when they converted to an auto.. Then of course the rats nest wiring we have all saw before..

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More random hack job wiring and even a broke flange on the header..

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Clearly the truck was due for all new wiring. We went with all new LED lights and markers. Bought some fancy digital gauges and put down some sound dampener. New tilt column is in and we will slap a new steering wheel on it. Also done a full stereo system with speakers in the kick panels, amp under the seat.. No pics of all that yet.. My buddy is absolute garbage at taking progress pics and he is 5 hrs away or I would go and take them myself lol

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Here we are starting to see some actual work and progress..

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These pics are not in order... The interior pic was taken AFTER my father had passed.. At this point I have purchased my brothers "half" of the truck and have started to make it mine. The interior was black, but I called an audible and chose to swap everything out to saddle. The second pic. Of the motor was while my father was still alive... freshened up 350 that came out of it... Looks pretty good huh?... Until I got the genius idea to call another audible after my father died...

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Here was my genius plan... Buddy came across a couple of LS motors.. We had talked about doing a swap at some point... But it was going to be down the road.. But I figured since he already had the truck up there to just go ahead and bite the bullet... Still waiting on a couple of parts to get back from the powder coated.. Then he is going to get it tuned.. The last pic shows the new solid rear glass and all the dark tint removed.. Next week the wood bed is hopefully going in.. Im sure I have left out several things.. But those are the highlights.