Last friday was rough, but ended up being worth it. Had a load of scrap from my grandfathers farm over at the scrapper under the Mckinley bridge in north Saint Louis Mo.

Pulled up at exactly 12 noon, time for their lunch break, I think, darn just my luck another half hour of waiting after fighting traffic to get there. Then a rollback pulls up with a baby blue 61 short bed(62 hood), passenger door/cab and 2 foot of the bed were smashed pretty bad, but other than that the thing is cherry.

I ask, How much are you getting out of it, he says 300.00 I know scrap wouldn't have brought that much, but they made him come up with the title for it so I doubt it would have met the jaws anyway.

Long story short, I got 84.00 for the scrap I brought this truck for 300.00 with keys, title, good 6 cyl with part of the original blue flame sticker still in tact.

ticker shows 21k miles, its gotta be accurate, the wood bed is still all there, not even rotted, the interior is almost perfect minus the little duct tape on the drivers seat. All glass in tact. New tires. With a battery and some fuel the engine runs. Original spare tire as well.

He even had the old battery with the individual white caps on it, but discarded it and the gas tank.

My question, What year cabs and beds will match, or can I cut up for replacement panels.

I found 1960 to 1963 seems right, but don't know a whole lot about these trucks(yet)

Anybody around STL have a parts truck cheap?

1961 Chevy C-10 Shortbed