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Finally was able to get my truck moved and got pics taken of it. Was able to start and drive it back in july but when I came to take pics my mom had it moved with the tires flat. Oh well at least the old L6 still runs. Enjoy the pics and as always recommendations, suggestions, and advice is more than welcome. Wanting to keep it original as possible to include leaving the old am radio and original motor. I am fine with it not having ac. The biggest thing will be the bed by replacing the diamond plate for the old wood bed.

The truck was originally my great grandfathers and was bought new in 66 but the color was tan by looking at the layers of paint and why the interior doesn't match the exterior. My papa got it after my papa died. He painted it red because we are huge Sooner fans, at least that is what I have thought growing up. Sadly my papa died May 2011 and now the truck is mine. It has seen better days but I know this is in better condition than most start with. He'll it starts and drives just fine, just need to replace a piece of rubber hose on the gas line and get two tires. Anyways, here is a link to my pics. Hopefully they work.

http://s1050.photobucket.com/albums/s407/Boomerchevy66/My%2066%20c10%20long%20fleet/

Looks good. Glad the truck stays in the family. Let is know when you need help.
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neat truck, sounds like your plans are right on..
what part of Ok do you live in.

Thanks hambone and don't worry I am sure I will be hounding you guys in no time. Thanks joker and I am living on tinker afb. Currently an ensign in the navy. Where do you live at? Can't wait to really start digging into it.

Welcome aboard and thanks for sharing the photos. In order to determine the original color, look at the G.V.W. tag on the driver side kick panel. There will be a 3 digit paint code on there. This will indicate the original color & whether is was a single-tone or two-tone truck.

Having a plan, is a good place to start. It will allow you to focus your resources, including time, money, space, skills, tools, equipment & ambition, to be sure you are staying on-track. Dialing-in the mechanical elements, including "Start/Steer/Stop", will allow you to enjoy the truck, during the process, versus blowing it apart into a thousand pieces, without a plan and it becoming a source of frustration.

Good luck with the project and keep the updates coming.

P.S. - Thanks for your service to our country!

Thanks for the reply and advice. I will look to see what the original was so I know. I am gonna make it two tone though with everything else original. Also thanks for appreciating what I am doing. I am hoping to have it done within the next 5 years because of all the factors you listed. With it just needing tiresand a new rubber piece of hose for the fuel line, I can get going down the street with no problem. I am fortunate enough to have a truck that was well taken care of up until the past couple of years. Thanks again.

Boomer,

USN retired. Aviator. Currently working in PAX River amongst some of Tinkers A/C. If you ever head this way, check in and I will show you around.

Hambone

Today on "Dave's '66 Custom"....I took a couple of guards off on the engine bay and was able to take the grill off without damaging anything....looks like my grandpa may have hit something at some point because the driver's side of the grill is a little banged up, but you really have to look at it to tell. Biggest project so far is going down this weekend (Oct. 6-8). I am going to attempt to take the diamond plate out of the bed by using an angle grinder to brake the welds. There was a very pleasant surprise when I investigated the under part of the bed, the original boards are still in the truck with all the original spacers!!! If I am successful at doing minimal damage to the main part of the bed, I may be looking at a much cheaper remodel on parts for the bed, found that they are quite pricey especially the wood. That's it for this edition of "Dave's '66 Custom". Come back Sunday to find out my success (or failure) of removing the diamond plate from the bed.

This is a nice story (putting it together from the post in the Welcome Centre, too).

Terribly curious now ... how did the unveiling of the bed go? I can't imagine getting all that diamond plate removed.

You'll have to shoot some more pictures and add to your Photobucket. These fellas are picture-hounds, ya know!

Would like to get this in the Gallery. We need a few more from this group!

Peggy M

Peggy, I will go take some more pics of the bed right now. I took a full pic of the drivers side and will post the link to the diamond plate removal here pretty quick. It was messy and I did a horrible job, but have to replace most of the stuff I messed up anyway because of the rust. here is the link to the full pic. http://s1050.photobucket.com/albums...=2012-10-15_18-22-29_797_zps75ea3e3d.jpg

I was able to take the diamond plate out as mentioned above. I used a 4 1/2" angle grinder with metal cutting discs. Took me the better part of a day to get it all down. I still have one piece to remove, but need to buy one more disc to finish the job. Here are some pics of what I did. I messed quite a few things up, but most of the things that are damaged needed to be replaced because of rust as you can see in some of the pics. I think the lower braces are going to be able to be saved. I will need new wood and new strips. Hope I didn't mess up more than what I should have by removing this. Thanks for all the advice so far. Here are the pics. http://s1050.photobucket.com/albums/s407/Boomerchevy66/Bed%20remodel/

I will say this I did this a while about 2yrs. ago pick some pretty wood to go in your bed there is more than just oak or pine. Also if you can go back with all stainless it will save you money in the long run...