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5 Year Restoration Posted All At Once...... 1969 CST/10
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I've lurked on this site for years, haven't posted much, but watching your trucks go together has been an inspiration.
To start, I lack the skills, space, tools, and time to do this restoration myself, but I found a shop in WA that let me be a part of the entire planning and procuring process. Not the way everyone wants to do it, but it's what worked for me. My truck is a 1969 CST/10 long bed 2 wheel drive that my parents bought in the mid-80s for my Dad's daily driver and to put a camper in the back and tow motorcycles to the dry lakes in SoCal. So many good memories. We left CA in 1991, and moved to a small town in KS. Prior to leaving CA my Dad rebuilt the engine, I was the gofor, and slapped a Macco paint job on it. My Dad died in 1997 from cancer. He was actually my step-Dad, but he raised me from the time I was 2 and adopted me when I was 5 around the same time they bought this truck. He'll always be Dad in my book. I had 2 step-sisters, but one of them passed from cancer in 2019. The truck was willed to me and it stayed as he left it until I blew the motor on my way home from my freshman year at Kansas State in 1999. I was 100 miles from home and 100 miles from school, so I had it towed home, put in a shed and there it stayed until 2017. In July 2017 I had it pulled from the shed and shipped to Bremerton WA where Finish Line Speed Shop was located at the time. He's since moved the shop to Ellensburg WA. What started out as a medium scale build turned into a full scale restomod when we confirmed the engine block was cracked in numbers 3 and 4. From that point things got away from me.... Highlights: 383 stroker, roller cam, aluminum heads and a Holley Stinger FI (435 hp, 430 ft lbs of torque) 5 speed manual Positraction rear QA1 Full Suspension Power Disc Brakes all around Power Steering Frame/Bed Shortened, and Stiffened Vintage Air All new Trim/Bright Work Billet CST/10, 383 and Glove Box Badges, Rad Machining Every Light is LED Mishi Aluminum Radiator/Fans Con2r Custom Steering Wheel Hydraulic Hood Hinges TMI Full Interior Dakota Digital Dash Pioneer Apple Car Play Stereo with one 10" Sub Headers Stainless Steel Exhaust, Dual Black Widow 250s Bedliner everywhere, in the bed/under the bed, in the cab/under the cab |
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Arriving in Bremerton July 2017.
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August 2017, Tear Down
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January 2018, New Engine
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January 2018, More New Engine
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April/May 2018, Frame/Bed Work
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May 2018, New Suspension
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May 2018, More Bed Stuff
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Wheels/Badges
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July 2018, Body Work Starts
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August 2018 Bed, and November 2018 Cab Starts
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November 2018, The Cab....
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November 2018, More Cab
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November 2018, Primer and Prep
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December 2018, More Prep
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December 2018, Even more prep
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December 2018, Still Prepping
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December 2018, Almost ready to prime
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December 2018, Primer!!!!
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December 2018, More Primer
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It's Still December 2018.....
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More December 2018
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11 more pics in December 2018...
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More December 2018
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1 last 2018 pic and we're into January 2019.
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February 2019, More bed work again
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February 2019, Paint Spray Out
Daytona Blue Metallic Diamond White Pearl |
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February 2019, Fitting aftermarket Hood
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Final hood February 2019 and then paint June 2019!
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June 2019, More Paint
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Final Paint, and Con2r Steering Wheel.
These were in August of 2019, and I had to mothball the project because of employment issues until June of 2021. My sales were too high, so I was essentially being forced to go 1099.... I left that company in the beginning of 2020 and started a business 2/1/2020. 6 weeks before the PNW shut down because of Covid is the perfect time to start a business, I just have good timing like that. |
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Fast Forward TWO YEARS to June 2021 and August 2021
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August 2021, More Frame
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September 2021, Do you like bedliner? I do.
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September 2021, More bedliner
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October 2021, Still More bedliner
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October/November 2021, Bedliner almost completed
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November 2021 and February 2022, Assembly Starts but Slowly at First
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February/March 2022, More Assembly
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March 2022, Wheel Wells Get Love
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