69 C-10 Project

04SSHD

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So a little back story. When I was 16 I bought my first truck which was a 1972 Chevy 3 Door Custom 20 Deluxe Suburban, I worked on it all through high school and ended up swapping the suspension for 5 lug half ton, did a 97 Tahoe Leather Interior swap (which back in that day was pretty damn new), and threw some Eagle 221's in 20's on it, bagged the front and had plans to bag the rear and finish the body and paint. Well that never happened and I slowly lost interest in the truck and ended up selling it. Back then I always wanted a C-10 panel to accompany the Suburban, well if any one here is familiar with the 67-72 GM pickup trucks, you would know that they didn't make a whole lot of Panel Delivery trucks. They were only made in this body style from 67-70 and they only made about 5000 of them for each of those years. Being almost 50 years old now, there's not a whole lot of them left in existence.

Here's the 72 Suburban Project that got me started in this whole mess...
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With that all said, years after I sold the burb I came across someone selling a 69 C-10 Panel delivery in Porkland Oregon. The price was right and I just had to have it... I sent the money to the seller and arranged for a transporter to pick it up. It was a tired old 69 with the factory 327 and single barrel, and 3 on the tree converted to 3 on the floor. Factory buckets, and some really shitty paint.

Pics from the Seller-
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So a friend of mine on the 6.7Cummins Forum saw my listing on Central Dispatch and saw that it was me listing it, called me and said he would swing by and bring it down. He had an empty spot on his trailer and was headed to LA anyways. I was in Mammoth on vacation and he was passing through to pickup another truck so I meet up with him and checked out the truck.
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By the time I got home it was sitting there waiting for me, and that's where all the madness begins.
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So I get it back to my house and first thing to go was those crappy 14" wheels with dry rotted tires, NBS W/T steelies to get me rollin
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With the Obama Cash for Clunkers Program flooding the local junk yards with late model cars and trucks, I was easily able to find some really nice 99-02 GMC Front buckets for $40 at Pick a Part
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The PO cut the dash for a different style dial radio, so being that it was already fucked up...
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Time to dig in there a little more
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Then it ended up at Cody's house for a little Suspension R&R
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A little better on the stance there
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so now that it was sitting right it was time to do some open heart surgery, out with the 327 and 3 speed
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Back to Cody's for a little Plasma love
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hmmm....what do we have here???
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a little test fitting with the new relocated motor mounts
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motor in, trans in, new 4 row aluminum radiator in...
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And time to go for a drive!
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Driving open header with a big block is fun, but it gets old pretty quickly...to the exhaust shop for some dual 2 chamber flowmasters
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Awesome truck, I thought the 67-69 trucks had the slant nose and the 70-72 had the bull nose front end you have?
 
Awesome truck, I thought the 67-69 trucks had the slant nose and the 70-72 had the bull nose front end you have?

67-68 had the slant front end (67 had no side markers)

69-70 had the vertical front end same as 71-72, and they had the crossbar grill

71-72 had the honeycomb grill with the turn signals in the bumper
 
BB is stock right now with the exception of an Edelbrock Performer RPM intake, Edelbrock 750 carb, headman headers, and HEI ignition. Motor was pulled from a 89 c3500 w/t. Not all that fast right now, but once I do cam and heads that should all change.