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I started on this for my freinds dad who has had this truck since 77. the truck has had three combinations of moter and tranny. first was ya you guest it stock with a 4 speed. Second was a some sort of aluminum olds moter ? . Thrird was a 231 buick and turbo 350 [ wittch i have for sale cheap ] .
Now it is getting a 4.3 chevy with a 4 barrel and 700r4 tranny with 373 gears and 28.5 inch tires .
I well try to put a littel something about the build everyday , to try and catch up with the accuwel build .here are some starter pics.
the start

Pull the motor from the sprint car and install it, thats what I did.

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Im try to keep the costs down and the front end to . but that is a thought

the fire wall was all cut up and the tunnel was out of a skylark??????? . the core support was cut out top and bottem . rusty passinger side floor board .

the tail gate and bed are in good shape .

and the *%**&^%#$% sun roof

At this point we needed a donor truck a low a behold i found this in a field at night . not to maney beers involved either .
It was in real good shape so i cut the roof off it , the tunnel out and am gooing to use the bed and tailgate offin it

the floor was in not good shape . it had wood screwes holding the tunnel down .
the end of the tunnel was not even there as you can see

attachment=0]Norm's 75 Luv 045.jpg[/attachment]we added a piece of pipe for strenth then we cut the passenger side floor out

this is the tunnel we cut out of the doner truckfit it in place and welded

and then the finished floor on the bottem of the cab
tommrow ill show what we did to the firer wall

Looks like you do good work, but why didn't you just build the blue truck and use yours as a doner? The roof and floor were ready to go.

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the blue truck was a after thought and the floor on the edges were it comes to the rockers was rusted worst than the truck we started with . we had a plan for the fire wall on the truck we are working on and would have to start all over .
what we did to the fire wall , was to shave all the high bumps offand install a smooth fire wall like this

this is what we ended up with

the core support was cut out in the middle so i took the top of the core support off the doner truck . i put a piece of 1by 2 tube and laid it in the channel to tye the two sides together and welded it in , then put the top of the core support on and welded . the bottem rail i used 1by2 . this made a perect fit for the new radiator .

Nice job so far...

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heres a couple of painted parts
the bed is done and the cab is at the painters for week or so . got to finish the instrument panel this week end and get it to the painters .

i like that silver color.

the dash as you all know is the hardest thing to find for these trucks . so we put a 66 chevelle dash in and i think it looks good .