Scott's 1967 GMC 1500 pickup

[Scott Liggett]

Your experience at making your own clutch linkage rods ought to help. The pivot point on the frame will have to move forward for sure though.

That bracket is easily moved forward as wel.l

[74NovaMan]

Cool. What are the plans?

Drive it.

No plans? Just going to drive it? You sure get a lot of work done for a guy without a plan!

Cool to see the progress. Keep up the good work.

[silver_bullet]

Drive the wheels off of it Scott! Trucks were meant to work!

[Scott Liggett]

No plans? Just going to drive it? You sure get a lot of work done for a guy without a plan!

Cool to see the progress. Keep up the good work.

Spending a little time making the truck comfy and reliable is all I am doing. Doing as much as I can on the cheap.

[Scott Liggett]

My five minute fix today. Got a pair of sun visors from a '72 Chevy C20 that looks to have belonged to the county roads dept and in use until last year. BTW, that truck has an 010 block 350 sitting in it.

My visor split at the seams and the cover came off leaving me this flimsy board that was near worthless.


They are off white in color which will make it easy to hit them with fabric paint later on.


It looks like the truck didn't originally have a passenger side visor. You can see where they marked out where it's supposed to go and butchered the headliner a bit to install one. BTW, how much could a second sun visor cost in 1967? $3.00? I read where F41 suspension option was like $25.00 on Impala's back then.


This was interesting. The passenger side visor I got has engine starting instructions. It's hard to read. Printed on some kind of cloth.



Found me one of the rallys I was looking for. Have a line on two more. Will try to get those tomorrow. No matter the case, I now have a spare tire.

[squirrel]

Neither of my late 50s trucks has a pass side visor. They were standard in the Deluxe cab option Chevys, with the chrome knobs, arm rests, stainless window trim, etc.

[Scott Liggett]

Neither of my late 50s trucks has a pass side visor. They were standard in the Deluxe cab option Chevys, with the chrome knobs, arm rests, stainless window trim, etc.

This may be a Custom model with gauges, but it didnt have arm rests or stainless trim. It has metal door panels.

[christcrusader13]

Sweet ride!

[Jesse James 80]

It looks like the truck didn't originally have a passenger side visor. You can see where they marked out where it's supposed to go and butchered the headliner a bit to install one. BTW, how much could a second sun visor cost in 1967? $3.00? I read where F41 suspension option was like $25.00 on Impala's back then.

1967 was really the last year for the really "bare bones" trucks. My 67 did not have a PS visor either. Starting in 68 a lot more things became "standard" and things really took off in 1971 when they started to really load up trucks with disc brakes, A/C, automatics, V8s, fleet sides, etc.

For a comparison (assuming you find stock unmolested trucks) you are very likely to find a 1967 C10 as a stripped down, no options, straight six, 3 spd stepside truck. By 1972 most of the original trucks that you'll find today have a V8, A/C, automatics, power steering, power disc brakes, and a lot more trucks came as fleetsides and with trim packages.

[1946Austin]

Do the floors for auto trans trucks unbolt? I though it was only the SM420 equipped trucks that it unbolted, the "flat" floors are one piece with no opening.

No they don't unbolt, but last one I changed the opposite direction from auto to stick, both trucks had the pattern marked out on the floor. So you can cut around the pattern (including the bolt pattern) on the automatic truck, and then lay it over the stick truck's opening, and drill holes to make it a bolt in. Some J clips make it easy to install too.

[Jesse James 80]

I believe big block trucks with the TH400 and all 4x4's, auto or manual, got the removable high hump cab. Anything with a straight six or TH350 got the low hump. It's been a while, but I think that's generally how it went...

It's easy to add one as mentioned above.

[Scott Liggett]

This weekend I pulled the dashboard out to replace broken temp and non-working amp gauge. I got these from the same '72 Chevy at the yard that I have been getting a bunch of stuff from.


Same truck gave up it's wiper motor. Looks like mine was from the junkyard. It worked but clicked all the time. Very annoying. It's easy to get to with the dash out. I also got the two hoses for the dash vents from the same truck.




Took a grinder to the rusty bits of the tool box, then my sander. Then primed it. Not I can see every damn dent.


I got some Rustoleum Stainless Steel paint. Came out more silver. I don't like it. Will reshoot it in a darker gray.

[Deaf Bob]

Poor man's chrome box!

[Scott Liggett]

Poor man's chrome box!

It's what I get for painting it Appliance Stainless Steel.

[Deaf Bob]

It's what I get for painting it Appliance Stainless Steel.

Somebody tried to paint one of my derby cars "chrome" with that appliance stainless stuff.. The kid sprayed them black on the trailer! Looked pretty bad! ... Your box isn't that bad... But not great.. You are in Neb, so white is probably best in summer?