1971 Cheyenne K20
 

My dad and I bought this truck to tinker with and hopefully eventually pass down to my son. I have driven the truck about 50 miles since unloading it off the trailer so I figured now would be a good time to take some pictures before I start to correct some minor things on the truck. These pictures are how the truck sits this morning.

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Beautiful truck.

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Very clean! :metal:

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Got out in the shop and worked on the truck for a while today. Got the cluster out for an overhaul and got together a parts list for interior odds and ends. Hope to have the interior 100% in the next couple weeks then on to correcting some things under the hood!

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Nice one Congrats!!

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Got the new 15” steering wheel in and the restored cluster. More odds and ends in the cab in the workss

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How do you like the smaller wheel , truck looks great .

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Honestly I like the wheel a lot more than I thought I would. It’s great quality and it clears my sons car seat when it’s in the middle. I would recommend it to anyone that just needs some more room.

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Looks incredible! Did you restore the cluster yourself?

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I actually ended up sending it off once I got into it. It had some electrical issues with the circuit ribbon on the back that I wasn’t comfortable addressing myself. I used a place called classic gauge and cluster. He got it done fast and everything works like a champ again.

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Got the sky jacker 2.5” lift installed on the truck. Now I’m going to move onto getting the tow hooks installed. I’ll get the hub caps back on the truck this afternoon after I re torque the suspension components. Truck is coming along nicely. More pictures to follow after the hooks are on!

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Trying to post the pictures again

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Please run that truck to Springfield and let me drive it for the weekend. Love it. Great truck. Would love to have a 4wd at some point.

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A few more recent pictures

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Very nice clean truck
Yes I do not like the bus wheel these trucks come with either
Nice to see 3 generations of c/k trucks in your garage

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Finally got around to getting the tow hooks on the truck last weekend. What a pain in the butt but it was worth the effort!

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Truck has been in body shop jail for the last couple months. Funny how a buff and polish has turned into a huge project. I’m excited to have my truck back. Hoping a couple more weeks and we can bring it home. For anyone that is curious we did cut the outer roof skin off our truck and add a cab light roof skin. I have never been so nervous in my life but the truck is in great hands and it’s turned out great.

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Wow you’re making an already amazing truck even more amazing. Keep it up.

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Thank you sir! Its defiantly finally coming together. Just need to source some new trim parts for the truck this winter and it will be ready to roll. I am still hoping to get the truck back before the end of the year.

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Great truck! Who are you having paint it?

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Mike Mclin at the Restomod store. I see you are from independence, they used to be located basically at Truman road and lees summit road. Just east of the police station but moved to Lees summit about a year ago. They do great work and have painted several trucks for me.

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Great color

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Beautiful truck that looks really original for the most part. That's awesome you have 3 generations of clean examples. Nicely done. I like the cab light roof skin addition as well with the lift. Great work!

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Very nice truck JT, I like the throttle option on the dash instead of under the dash, I'm gonna look into that for my '71 4wd stepper, I'm also a fan of cab lights on a 4wd truck.
have you replaced the cab mounts yet ??
how about a picture of the SPID when you get a chance......

LOVE THIS FORUM

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It really is a nice clean example. When I get the truck back from the body shop we are going to start on correcting some stuff under the hood. I have a correct air cleaner and valve covers for it. Will probably put the correct manifolds on it eventually but that will be down the road if the motor ever has to come out.

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Here is a picture of the SPID. The cab light decision was a big one but ultimately decided that since we wanted to paint the top white we would just bite the bullet and do it!

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I've been there, I live about 5 minutes from Vintage Fabrication. They do really nice work. Great truck! If you FB, look up Missouri C10 Addiction. They're talking about getting a group together for World of Wheels. I really dig your Squarebody, not my personal style, but a great truck!

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I am familiar with Vintage. My dad knows those guys. Thank you for the kind words on the square body! It’s definitely a cool truck. It’s been with us for about 4 years now. We may go to world of wheels this year. Thanks for the
Heads up on the MO c10 group.

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I'm still bummer World Of Wheels doesn't have a show in Des Moines anymore. I've been contemplating taking the kids to the KC one though.

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Here are some pictures of the process we went through with the cab light roof skin swap.

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Roof skin swap continued....

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Roof skin swap continued again...

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WOW, lot's of work but I think it's worth it, obviously so do you :) plus you get to clean all that nasty rust out of there, ..... I'm a fan of cab lights.

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I'm a big fan of raised roof cab lights. It looks very nice! That was a lot of crustiness in there!

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Very nice work!

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I finally got the truck back from the body shop on Wednesday night. Truck looks great and the cab light conversion was a success. Got some minor things fixed and most importantly the top of the cab is now white like it is supposed to be. Truck turned out great. Here’s a couple pictures. It was worth the wait.

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That looks very nice!

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Wow, good looking truck JT