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Originally posted by red58:
hey, welcome Austin! looks to me like ya got a deal there - nothing wrong w/ that dry country 'sunburn', just less paint to get off grin

don't know if you'll have much luck finding out 'how many' anything on 60's trucks, but by then V8s were gettin more popular, and the story is that by 66 over a third of all Chev trucks produced were V8 - guess that's why they call 60-66 'the V8 era' trucks - in 65 Chev called'em "Work Power" trucks, and according to my references there was 131,395 C10s [C1400] produced in the US in 65

65 was the beginning of the 'camper specials', which option included the 283, so you may have onea those - the AC option would have also included a higher output alternator - mighta been the reason for the 'power pack' option too, tho' all the 283's then were called 'hi-torque' [327's too I think]

good luck w/ it, and thanks for the pic grin

Bill
Thanks Bill, I never knew any of that. Do you have any ideas or suggestions of where to start learning more about these trucks in the sense of swapping front suspension, what disk brake set-ups will work, etc etc. I'm also wondering what rear ends came in this truck. Do you have any ideas what the HP and Torque rating this truck would have had with the 283 ? Sorry I have so many questions but I'm trying to learn some stuff.

Dan