Me and my dad just got a Chevy C10 truck that comes with A/C and an automatic transmission. I believe it has the 283 in it. I just took off the starter today and had a neighbor repair the insides for me for free (good neighbors like that are hard to find). Then I ran over to Autozone to get a new set of points and condenser for the distributor. Finally I hooked up a new battery and poured a few table spoons of gas down the carb to see if she would fire up and it purred like a kitten for about 3 to 4 seconds.
Tomorrow I think I'll drop the tank and have the insides cleaned out cause the old gas in there had been setting for about 2 years and probably gummed up the line, it smells pretty bad. I was really surprised to find out that it still runs after so long. Its not in that bad of shape and I hear an automatic C10 with A/C is hard to find these days.
I have no idea on how much its going to cost to restore her, but I know one thing I'll be driving it down the road here pretty soon. Its even got a 3 gun rack settin in the rear window so I can carry around my 12ga. this dove season here in central Texas. I feel like a kid who just got his first vehicle all over again, except this ones gonna take some time to get it down the road again.
This is my first post and I know its pretty long and all but I just wanted to see maybe if I could pick some brains around here when ever I run in to a stump with this project on getting this C10 in good working order. I'll definitely post some pics whenever I get it running. Nice meetin yall.
