I'm the old Truck Tinker and that's what I do. I have been in mechanics since I was age 7 and that has been 58 years. My dad and I have built and restored countless cars and trucks over the years and I taught Automotive for 29 years in the Atlanta school system. Now, I'm into the early/middle sixties trucks. My first practice truck for my current project is in the gallery under Paul Toth's 65 c10. My next project is in the 64 section as a mixture of parts. It's a 64 red and white stepside. The current 65 will look like the 65 in the gallery, only all the rust places in the cab has been replaced with welded-in new metal and has a fully built 400 with a 400 trans. After I finish it, I will put back together a 66 longbed fleet and paint it solid red and the next one will be a mixture of a 61 frame (left over from parts truck) a cab off a long bed that I bought for 75.00 and I will use the parts left over from a 66 GMC long bed that someone had put new front fenders, new rockers and cab corners (he put everything together with pop rivets so I slavaged all the new stuff to put on the 61/62 that I am going to build. It will have a GMC grill, hood, tail gate and other GMC parts with a 350 engine and I don't know what the trans. will be yet. Either way, I have about two or three years work ahead of me and loving every moment. I always keep my eyes open for more potential 60 - 66 Chevy trucks. I know how everyone on the Stovebolt site feels about their projects. Good Luck to all, Truck Tinker.
