Ryan B. said:
sweet! can't turn down a $500 deal huh!
it may be rusty but at least its straight!
what are your plans? replace the fenders and graft a new windshield frame on? replace the bedsides also? those suckers aren't cheap!
Right now my big concern is selling my '72 Cheyenne and getting rid of my maxima and F-6...my dad is NOT HAPPY with the current barrage of MY vehicles in the stable:
'71 K5 (my new baby)
'72 Cheyenne (former baby, now for sale, needs motor repaired)
'59 VW Buggy (the neverending project)
'90 Nissan Maxima (former DD, bad transmission, sold but not picked up yet)
'92 Nissan Maxima (current DD)
'60 C60 Ramp truck (future tow truck)
'51 Ford F-6 chassis/grain box (sold but not picked up yet)
'95 Ram 1500 4x4 (friend is parting it out in my field, I get the frame/box to turn into a trailer)
'97 Chevy K1500 (another friend brought it over after the rear axle blew on the highway, fixing this week)
'93 Pontiac Bonneville (customers car, needs a new motor)
'72 Chevy Nova (customers car hulk, needs to be taken to scrap yard, parts car for the one I'm restoring)
In addition to that the rest of the family has 3 caravans/voyagers, an '89 V3500 crewcab LWB, '69 CST/20 Crewcab SWB 4x4, 68 Fiat Abarth alamono spyder (our "barn" vehicle) and a host of tractors & farm impliments...
I think the bedsides will be fine with some patching, I don't really think that I need to replace the whole bedsides, but the bed floor, rocker boxes, rockers, front floor and front body supports all need repaired. I'm debating whether to keep the 72 front end or go for a '67-68 front end (if 68, front markers would be shaved) but that would come after all the tub repairs get taken care of.
Beyond that, I would love an NV4500/NP241 or T56 & Divorced T-case, I've got a motor in the machine shop (350 roller block, 400 crank, vortec heads, going to go with a modified LT4 intake & TPI harness/ECM). This truck will be more of a cruiser and tow rig than a serious off road rig (no offence...but I have a lot of friends who are pretty serious into mudding, they just get from point "A" to point "broken" and smack up their bedsides, doors and fenders in the process, don't want that to happen to my truck, I'd rather be accellerating like my ass is on fire, towing trailers and ripping around corners). Planning on a Candy Orange paint for the tub and Por-15/semigloss black for the axles, suspension and underbody. Front suspension is gonna get a bigger sway bar and disk brakes, rear will also get disks, load leveler & load control airbags, probably a posi eventually too. Planning on dual exhaust thru ramshorns with electronic cutouts, and swapping the black dot tri-bar headlights and smoked running/turn and taillights from my cheyenne.
) W/Holley carb
