[seafoam68]

In 1970 my dad needed a work truck. He purchased a 1968 short fleet custom from a friend of his. I was five at the time. It had the 327 with 4 barrel quad and three on the tree. I can remember him "showing off" by pulling away from stop signs with trans in third gear. The 327 was that peppy. When I was a little older he took the truck to a dealer because it had always had a "miss". (Understand that dad was not a hot rodder.) They told him the cam was bad and replaced it. He drove the truck till I was sixteen and took over. I went to work with him (in the construction business) and we drove it to work until 1986. The engine had about 225000 on the clock and was oiling the plugs bad. Dad got another truck and we parked it. A couple of years later I got the bug and pulled the engine. Upon taking it to a well known machine guru, the guy looked at the crank and said what did this come out of? I told him and he said it was a steel crank only used in 1968 for the corvette "fuelie" motor. Now flashing back to the dealer replaced cam, I wonder if it was just a little rump-rump insted of a miss? Had the guys on the line just snatched up a vette motor and thrown in the truck? Hmmmm. Flash foward to 2014. I have been doing a total restore on the old guy for a few years now. Don't have deep pockets so I have to pace myself. I can say when I'm done that I have done pretty much all the work on it myself and can be really proud of it. I lost dad in 2010 so it means even more to me now.