Know the history of your truck ?

[Steeveedee]

Our truck has been in the family since '73. Don't know anything about it before that. My father in law had a '63 1/2T truck with a 283 and 3OTT. Their family (dad, mom, my wife-to-be) went camping all over the country. That '63 had to make 4 tries to make it up the hill in Wolf Creek Pass, so when they got back to California, my FIL went and bought this '70 Longhorn CST Custom Camper with a 400 engine, 400 trans and a 3.55 Dana 60 rear axle. Leaf springs and all. It's a stump puller, for sure. First thing he did was put a camper shell on it. My wife learned to drive in it, all 98 pounds of her (power steering and power brakes!). She drove that barge to college in downtown Los Angeles traffic in the mid-'70s, until her dad bought her a '69 Nova. I met her in '80, married her in '81 and did the majority of the maintenance on it from there on, as I was a mechanic at the time (and going to university on the GI Bill). Grandpa and Grandma took my young sons camping and fishing in this truck for many years, during the summers out of school. My FIL passed away in 2010, and we got possession of it. I've upgraded it to front disc brakes, rebuilt the front suspension (original parts!) last year, and put a new shell on it this year. While I had the old nasty shell off, I cleaned up and painted the roof. My middle son helped me with that front end rebuild and disc brake upgrade (and the paint). He's the only one interested in having it when my wife and I kick the bucket. We'll be using it for awhile, since we just bought a new travel trailer in September.