Zombie truck saved from chrusher

[Old Truck Man]

A couple of years ago I spotted a 66 GMC on the back of a rollback of a rabid scrapper. I stopped and asked about it. The truck was only hours away from being crushed. after some haggling I bought it for $400. He delivered it to my place. This truck was a Zombie been asleep since 2000. So I pulled the spark plugs and none where fouled or had oily redidue on them. So I filled the Cyls with a 50-50 mixture of auto trans fluid & diesel fuel. put a large quanity of rat poison in the cab. And Let it sit until a few weeks ago. I sold our 65 chev PK. So I went and pulled the plugs and installed a battery. unhooked the fuel line from the pump and attached a short hose to a gallon jug. Cranked it a bit to blow out the tranny fuel and diesel. reinstalled the spark plugs anf it didn't start. filed the points and it cranked immediately smoked a bit and smoothed up and idled beautifully. I could pull the PCV from the valve cover and not a trace of blowby. Now this heap is rusty packed full of blackberry canes horse & cow manure and other stuff by pack rats. So I took out the seat opened the doors and gave it a good pressure washing. the stale gas stench was overpowering so I removed the gas tank and threw it away. Put on a new master cyl and I have brakes. So I drive it a bit sitting on a milk crate. The granny four speed shifts good and is quiet. So far I have patched the floor pans changed the driver side rocker. and the complete front cap and hood. abd changed the gas tank & seat. I using what I like to call mediocre parts. the fenders ect are solid rust free but dented. Im pounding out the dents but aren't going to use any body filler. In not going to sand anything. Just use rust converter and flat black primer. Ive got a crome grill & bumper to use also. I plan on swapping to 73 up five hole front suspension and rear end. the GMC rear leaf springs make the swap to 5 lug simple.