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As some may know, I’ve had a thread in the projects & builds forum. Here lately, The project has progressed from a shop project to a tagged & driveable project with the goal/plan to drive it to Townsend Tn for the AD show & Stovebolt get together. I’ve posted a few Saturday shakedown runs we’ve done as I’ve made improvements & or repairs as needed. Recently someone suggested I post here instead of my build thread or the Southern thread, so here I am. I recently switched from stock height rear coil springs on our 66 c10 to 2” drop with the goal of leveling the truck out a little & mainly to improve the ride. Especially with our 2000 or so mile trip coming up. The Dixie Cruisers, an old car/truck club here in Brevard Co host a cruise in once a month at the Dog R Us Restaurant on US one in Titusville Fl that attended this past Saturday. It was a perfect day for an outing with an old truck , 50 mi drive one way, no interstate. We got there early, had a nice lunch and were able get a premium parking spot in the grass under some palm trees. The wife is becoming an old hand at this and has equipped our truck with two folding lawn chairs in soft carrier bags so not to scratch the pickup bed floor. Just for the record to 2” drop springs, which turned out to be 1” drop work very nicely for our purposes . If we were carrying a load sometimes, I’d have left it as is. The Vintage Air I installed just prior to the springs, continues to work very well too. Anyhow, a great day out with the truck, lots of interest & nice comments from fellow gearheads at the Dogs R Us/ Dixie Cruisers cruise in. I apologize for the few photos. If I’d know I was going to do a long winded post, I’d have taken more photos