First post here.
I bought this little 63 truck off the junk man. He was on the way to the scrap yard to sell it for recycling. It's a legit 1 owner truck with the original owners manual and paperwork in the glovebox. No rust repairs needed anywhere. It's 100 percent solid. Problem is, the original engine was blown.
In the 2 months that I've had it I converted the front suspension to 84 model stuff to get disc brakes. I rebuilt it all with new bushings, ball joints, shocks, brakes, etc. powdercoating everything. In the rear, I used a 72 model rearend to get 5 lug wheels. Again, new trailing arm bushings, springs, shocks, brakes, all of that.
Under the hood, I built a 327 engine with everything powdercoated.
New bed wood and strips from Mar-K
Fresh seat cover inside with all cleaned and detailed interior parts, again powdercoated.
Don't let the powdercoating fool you, I am certainly not well off, I just run a powdercoating shop on my days off (I'm a fireman so I get a good number of free days).
I still need to put a windshield in it and do some detailing of the wire harness. I should be driving it daily in another month or so.
Pictures are on my photobucket, or better pictures and captions on my blog.
http://s276.photobucket.com/albums/kk33/Adventure-rider/63%20Farm%20truck/Once I get this thing on the road my next project is already waiting. I have a 78 model 1 ton dually cab and chassis truck (narrow dually rearend for flatbed). The cab is junky so I'm looking around locally for a late 40s, early 50s heavy truck to use for cab and front clip onto the later dually chassis.
