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Olin 07-28-2022 10:49 PM

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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

Olin 07-28-2022 10:50 PM

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Arriving in Bremerton July 2017.

Olin 07-28-2022 10:51 PM

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August 2017, Tear Down

Olin 07-28-2022 10:52 PM

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January 2018, New Engine

Olin 07-28-2022 10:53 PM

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January 2018, More New Engine

Olin 07-28-2022 10:54 PM

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April/May 2018, Frame/Bed Work

Olin 07-28-2022 10:56 PM

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May 2018, New Suspension

Olin 07-28-2022 10:57 PM

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May 2018, More Bed Stuff

Olin 07-28-2022 10:58 PM

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Wheels/Badges

MWO was my Dad’s initials.

Olin 07-28-2022 11:00 PM

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July 2018, Body Work Starts

Olin 07-28-2022 11:01 PM

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August 2018 Bed, and November 2018 Cab Starts

Olin 07-28-2022 11:02 PM

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November 2018, The Cab....

Olin 07-28-2022 11:03 PM

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November 2018, More Cab

Olin 07-28-2022 11:04 PM

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November 2018, Primer and Prep

Olin 07-28-2022 11:05 PM

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December 2018, More Prep

Olin 07-28-2022 11:06 PM

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December 2018, Even more prep

Olin 07-28-2022 11:07 PM

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December 2018, Still Prepping

Olin 07-28-2022 11:08 PM

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December 2018, Almost ready to prime

Olin 07-28-2022 11:09 PM

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December 2018, Primer!!!!

Olin 07-28-2022 11:10 PM

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December 2018, More Primer

Olin 07-28-2022 11:12 PM

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It's Still December 2018.....

Olin 07-28-2022 11:13 PM

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More December 2018

Olin 07-28-2022 11:14 PM

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11 more pics in December 2018...

Olin 07-28-2022 11:15 PM

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More December 2018

Olin 07-28-2022 11:16 PM

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1 last 2018 pic and we're into January 2019.


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