Sullii the 72 GMC 1500

[hewittca]

It was such a beautiful day today and the lighting was perfect so I decided to pull the truck out into our field and get a few shots of it "in the weeds".





It was fun seeing the truck hiding in the grass, so I left it out until evening. When it was time to pull it inside I was rewarded with the setting sun casting the perfect glow on the truck. Photos like these are the ones I love revisiting after years gone by and I'm several builds later. Keeping that in mind, I'm trying to remember to enjoy this truck while I have it!

[hewittca]

I'm just catching up here with some photos from the last month. I've been driving the truck quite a bit and just trying to enjoy it. I even drove it to work every day one week. I want to put as many miles on it while the weather is still tolerable. I also made a successful trip to the C10 Resurrection. It was the first year for the show and they had 250 trucks show up. Not too bad for a small town show in Lexington NC. I only managed to get two photos of the truck. One before heading out to the show, and one arriving. My friend came with me and after about two hours we left and headed back to his place to work on his truck with some newfound motivation. Ultimately, we ended up bringing his chassis back to my house so he has room at his place to start body work. He helped me so much with my truck and now we are making some serious progress on his truck.







The only issue I've had with the truck lately is a dead starter. At first I thought it was the battery so I tried jumping it with my Tacoma, but still no luck. Then I tried rolling the truck down the driveway and dumping the clutch and it fired right up. At this point I was highly confident it was the starter. Easy enough to swap. It took longer to go get the starter than it did to swap it out. I'm thinking the old one died because it was worn out because I don't think my exhaust is too close. We'll see how long this new one lasts. The starter was indeed the issue. Back to cruisin!





Here's a few more random shots of the truck. All out and about near home and work. The kids hop into a photo every now and then. They are usually with me since they enjoy riding in the truck just about as much as I enjoy driving it.









I've also been trying to improve my photo taking skills, at least as much as I can given I'm still just using my phone! My biggest mistake is I've been using the native 26 mm focal length of the lens which allows you to get really close to the truck and still fit it in the frame. This gives it a distorted perspective that exaggerates the size of parts that are closer to the camera. It makes for an interesting photo sometimes, but it doesn't faithfully represent the dimensions of the truck.



A more natural focal length for automotive photography is around 35-40mm. Unfortunately you cannot change this on my phone. You can, however, mimic it by changing the zoom to 1.5x. This forces you to take several steps back to fit the whole truck in the shot. The tradeoff is you reduce photo quality slightly, but the truck looks much more proportionately correct.



My tentative plan for the truck this year is to drive it until the weather is unbearable. Then I will most likely park it until the weather cools off just in time for the next C10 Fall Revival. After that, I will probably be ready to start working on the interior. That's it for now.

[hewittca]

It's been another month of enjoying the truck, but the weather is starting to reach peak misery and my days of driving the truck are getting few and far between. I really need to look into Vintage Air...

I was able to get to our local cruise in for May in downtown Mocksville. It's normally a decent turnout, but it's always the same vehicles year after year. It's more of an old gentleman's club. Anyway, I brought the family along for this one. We did NOT all fit in the truck. My wife followed along in her air conditioned modern car, smart! I was able to grab a good spot, take a few pics, and then we walked around for a bit.

[hewittca]

While building the truck I always tried to keep in mind that I wanted to still use this truck as a truck. Although I have limited its stock capabilities in this regard, I am still able to do virtually everything that I would need a truck for. For example, I needed to do some trimming of thorn bushes along my fence. The truck was perfect for this task, even with driving it all over my property which is not very forgiving in some areas. Luckily it is mostly rolling hills.





In some areas the truck was literally on the ground but it powered through. I'm sure I was on the verge of getting stuck, but this wasn't too troubling. If I did, I would just pull the truck out with my Tacoma.





Overall it was fun using the truck as it was intended while knocking something off the never ending to-do list.

[hewittca]

I've had the truck for about 3 1/2 years now and I've always intended on making a homecoming trip of sorts back to Piedmont Traction where I bought the truck. Every year they have a show on father's day weekend and every year I've had plans to bring the truck, but I've never made it. This year marks the fourth show since I bought my truck (and 7th show overall) and I was finally in a place where the truck could make the journey. Overall, it was a fun event and I'm glad I could make it. Here are a few pics from the show.

[clay68c10]

It's looking great doing work for you. I like the shot where you are literally in the weeds.

[jasinger01]

Looks great! Saw you on the latest UBT video

[zicc1835]

looking great all the pictures thanks for sharing ...the family ......working sullii ...I did something similar but a lot different..now im going over to my thread to update

[raggedjim]

Glad to see you enjoying the truck with your kids!

Rg