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Hello everyone, new member here. I picked up a 1970 C-10 shortbed on New Year's Eve. Loved these trucks for years and actually learned to drive in a 1969 K-10.

Picked up a nice 1970 with a bunch of extra parts. Body is in very good shape, needs cab corners, rockers, and floorboards. Bed is in awesome shape. Engine is a 1968-ish 327, Edelbrock 4bbl, HEi distributor, 3-speed converted to floor shift.

So far I've replaced the intake manifold due to a crack by the water fitting, complete tune up, new (used) power steering pump, and installed a power brake booster.

I have about $5000 in parts on order from LMC and the like. :metal:

Intent is to make this a decent daily driver/Sunday cruiser.

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Also, if anybody local to South Jersey or close enough to drive here is interested, I have a complete 12-bolt rear end (gearing and condition unknown) with 5-lug hubs for coil spring trucks, and front spindles and brake parts for disk brakes (5 lug also).

Free to a good home, just come and get them. I'm planning to keep my drum brakes for the foreseeable future and have no desire to switch to 5-lugs.

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Welcome. Sounds like ya got a nice start.
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Welcome!!! You came to the right site! :gmc2:

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Welcome to the board!
I`d be interested in the 5 lug stuff for a `67 i just bought. i could drive down one night after work if that works for you.

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Come and get it! Zip is 08061 for planning the drive.

Email me at slattimer@yahoo.com and we can figure it out.

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Welcome to the boards!
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Welcome to the boards.. You have a nice start with the truck and 5k in stuff coming!

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Email sent, Thanks.

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Also welcome from Florida! Nice lookin short fleet.

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Howwwwwwwwwwwdy! from TX.

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Welcome from Northern California. That's a good looking truck.

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Thanks everybody!!


I got about 7 boxes of stuff tonight and a few the other night. I now have all the steel I need for floorboards, front cab mounts, bed floor (minor spot repairs), cab corners, and rockers. the only other thing I need is a right front inner fenderwell. Got the seat reupholstery kit, a bunch of interior stuff, door and window seals etc tonight as well as the new tilt column.

Also stopped and ordered a clutch and flywheel kit for swapping in the 4-speed. Picked up a new starter tonight also. Gonna be a busy week.

I have a big order from early classic and brothers on the way.

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Sounds like you have a lot of work in front of you but it will be worth every penny when done. Congrates! Welcome to the boad also!;):chevy:

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welcome ! its going to be sweet!

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Thanks everybody!

Also forgot to mention that I have the A/C kit from Classic Auto Air coming as well.

Not trying to restore it or build a show truck, but I intend to have a comfortable, reliable, daily drivable truck when I'm done.

I'm going to keep it white and change the interior from blue to black. Junking the nasty buckets the PO put in it and reworking the stock seat. Rhino lining in the bed and probably a black soft tonneau.

Right now I intend to have the everything under the hood good to go this week and start on the floorboards this weekend. Also going to try to repaint the dash and get the tilt column installed. Once I get it registered I'm taking it for an exhaust. The PO put some nasty bent pipes over the axle and welded on a pair of motorcycle mufflers. I'm debating putting the new duals out in front of the tires or behind. Probably in front for the slightly old school look.

I want to have it as a drivable project within a few weeks. It will probably take me over a year to get everything done including paint.

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Welcome, that looks kinda like a truck my dad used to have, good luck hope its all you hope it will be
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Nice truck welcome.
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Might be interested in your buckets/ or tracks. Post a picture
and price.
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If you sell any of your grill stuff pm me! Thanks and looking forward to
Pictures of the build!
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Hey Lattimer ...

:welcome2: to the forums and :hi: from Ohio. :cong: on your new C10 and I think all 1970 trucks are :c2:

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Welcome, we look forward to seeing your progress !

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I have to decide which grille I want to use. Both are pretty decent and need minor dent work, but one is an original 70 and one looks like a later GM replacement----at least based on the 69-70 grille thread I was reading.

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Can't wait to see the $5000 shipment come in from Lmc. You need to take a picture of all those goodies and show us!
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Didn't you hear?... motorcycle mufflers on these trucks is all the rage!... lol. Can't wait to see how she looks after the parts come in.

Weev-

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Its not all from LMC. I ordered a bunch from Early Classic Enterprises, and the air conditioning is a big chunk at $1400. I still have 2 shipments from Early Classic on the way, and the A/C should be here next week. But here is the pile of parts so far. That total also includes all of the tune up parts, belts and hoses, water pump, starter, etc. I already put on the truck.

Under the boxes is the stock seat and 4-speed Saginaw that are going in the truck, as well as the 12-bolt I'm giving to Street Smart.

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Those mufflers are spectacular compared to the wiring work the PO did. They will disappear as soon as I get it on the road and can drive to the exhaust shop.

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Cool! I will be watching your build. Looks like you have some work ahead of you.
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Get some nice Flowmasters on there and new pipes welded on. I really love the 40's but they are a loud one. Painless wiring kit could make your wiring nightmares a little easier if really hacked up.

Weev-

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Its not too bad really, but the stuff that the PO did touch he did wrong. Bare wires twisted together, wire stuffed under fuses in the fuse block, garbage bag ties holding wires together. Start wire to the starter and the battery cable were routed through the headers, so both were burned. I have 95% of it fixed now.

40's would be too loud for me. I'm thinking 60's and turn the pipes out in front of the rear wheel. Mellow but decent sound.

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Nice Truck man, Any plans on restoring it ?

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Its going to be resto-mod-ish. I working through all of the mechanical stuff now, then I have to do some rust repair, new interior, and paint it. Truck is in too good of shape (IMHO) to mess with pulling the cab off the frame.

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Oh I hear ya, What made you take the old Bench out? Those are the best

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Keep it up,,,
My build http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=468622
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PO did that. I'm putting it back in. I got upholstery and repair kit for it from LMC.

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GOOD LOL, I love the Bench seats..Im not too big on the Newer seats

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Me either. The PO put some leather buckets that look like they are out of a Pontiac or something from the early 90's, and they are pretty worn and ugly.

Luckily the guy I bought this from kept all sorts of parts and threw in everything but the kitchen sink to make the deal. He had 5 different trucks and was selling them and all of the parts he had.

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another welcome from Texas, looks like you are going to have some fun with your truck....good luck on the project.