1980 Chevy C10 - Ugly but Functional

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Originally Posted by WilliamFd55

You have good taste Looks a lot like my previous truck. You'll get that much more gratification, knowing you built it every time you hit the road!

Definitely true! Even though its still pretty rough, and sometimes a bit sketchy, I enjoy driving this a LOT more than anything else in the fleet. Funny thing is, I was never a truck guy, or a Chevy guy. I always had Buick muscle cars and would just maintain them/minor upgrades (springs and shocks, etc.) I bought the truck because I got the LS for free, and it was the cheapest thing I could find in driving condition and was one of the easier LS Swaps to perform. Now I love the truck, as do my girls. It was going to just be a ratty street/strip truck but now its going to be a nice-ish daily that I can learn and test things on. No real direction otherwise, just whatever I feel like. Slapped together 5.3 that will eventually get a turbo? sure. NA 6.0? Sure. Paint and body? Why not, whole gamut of stuff to learn there - lots of complicated dents and some minor rust.

This winter its getting tubular control arms (not a coilover conversion) and a brake over haul (just stock front disks and new shoes for the rear) - and I'll fix the floor pans, and hopefully do up a better exhaust now that I'm more comfortable working with metal tubing and welding.

Sort of a learn as I go project. The better half wants a 68-73 Nova so I'm hunting for one of those, which I'll attempt to do as a much nicer and more directed build, but for now its just learning and ripping on the truck.