You are an ambitious guy. Am optimist as well😀 But I’m sure you’ll get’er done. I saw a complete running 64/66 chassis on CL (no cab or sheet metal ) for 1200$ that I thought about letting you know. But Thought you might want to stay original.
1966 C-10 Short Stepside HiPo Step-by-step ~ and on-going resto build in the Project Journals
