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Originally Posted by Low Elco
What's up on the '57? And where did an '83 c-10 sneak in?
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The '55 is kind of dry-docked right now. It's got the second bay of the garage tied up right now. I'm going back and forth on this one. On one hand, I want to finish it, and on the other hand, I want to sell it. I'm torn.
The '83 has been around for a long time. It's an original half-ton fleetside, black on black. I bought it from the second owner, and he had it for a long time as well. The issue was (is) that the truck had a carburetor fire back in the early '90s and it burned the top of the engine. The guy put it back together, but eliminated all of the computer and sensor wiring. It runs good, but it's not smog legal, and in California, that's a bad thing. My initial intent was to get it back together with all the required 1983 stuff, and that turned out to be a hassle because from 1979 to 1990, GM changed the computer and sensor configuration every year. I even bought a complete TBI set-up, and when I talked to the smog referee about retrofitting it, he made it sound like that was going to be a
huge hassle, so I backed off. This truck would be the PERFECT candidate for an LS engine. I have had many, many '73-'87 Chevy trucks, and this is the most solid one I have ever had. Not one spec of rust anywhere on the truck and only 1 dent the side of a pencil eraser on the body. The guys back East would die for this thing. It's got dual tanks, a small block, A/C, a 700r4, and I put a 12-bolt out of a '73 in it. If it was a pre-smog ('73-'75) I would be driving that thing right now.