The Stovebolt Site Forums Welcome! Welcome Centre Do It Yourself (DITY) Gallery 1964 C-10 LWB Fleetside

Hey every one. I registered to the Stovebolt website about 6 months ago and I have finally decided to submit my truck to the gallery to share with everyone.
About me: My name is Joe Marigold and I am from Jeddo, MI. That’s about 80 miles north of Detroit. I am 22 years old and currently seeking my degree in Mechanical Engineering in Flint, MI at Kettering University (Formerly General Motors Institute).
Purchasing the truck: I bought this truck from a cousin of mine about two years ago last August. I had seen him driving it around in the years prior to purchasing it and I had slowly fallen in love with it. Every time I would see it he would notice how much I loved the truck. I let him know that if he ever wanted to sell that I should be the first he calls. I was sitting at work one day and my mother called me and told me that my cousin Ron was interested in selling the truck and wanted to give me or my father first shot at buying the truck. The first words out of my mouth was “SOLD!”. I couldn’t think of anything else for the rest of the week and I busied myself raising the $2500 he was asking. I sold stocks that week and ran numbers in my checkbook to see that it was possible to purchase the truck. I went over to Ron’s house that weekend and seen the truck sitting in its driveway, and I remember being disappointed at first, because I spent the entire week thinking about how great and solid the truck was. I was slightly saddened that it had more rust then I had previously recalled (It’s always worse than it looks!). I thought well, I guess at least I better take it for a drive and see how it goes. The ride changed everything for me. I instantly fell back in love with the truck and knew I had to have it. My father and I looked at each other as we pulled back in to my cousin’s driveway; we had to have this truck. I offered my cousin $2000 for the truck and we haggled a little bit and settled on $2200. I didn’t have the money all transferred into my account, but my cousin is family and knew I was good for the money. I drove it home that day, pleasantly surprised that the truck was nearly daily driver condition.
The Truck:
My cousin Ron was a man of very particular tastes when it came to saving vehicles from the South. He only purchased vehicles that were relatively unmolested. This truck to my great relief was one of those specimens. It has the original 283 V-8 and 3 speed transmission with the rickety, cumbersome column shift (which I absolutely love). The truck read approximately 19500 miles when I bought it. The only thing that Ron did to this truck was rebuilt the engine at 98000 miles. It was amazing to find the truck in such original condition. The only thing that was missing from the truck was the dog dish hub caps, which were replaced with wheel covers that I found to be from some mid 50’s Chevy car. The transmission had a little bit of clattering in it that got much better after a fluid change. Over all the truck was amazing. I spent the next three weeks just driving the truck and turning heads everywhere I went.
The Restoration: The restoration process was/is a baptism by fire as I have never done any extensive restorations on a vehicle before. I had a little experience with bodywork and painting before I started the restoration. My main stays were my welding experience and my mechanical know-how. I think that the photo album speaks volumes about how the restoration is going.
Truck as purchased

Here is a link to the entire album of the Restoration and misc concerning the truck.
1964 Truck Album


Note to Moderator,

I apologize if I did anything wrong in posting this message, I am new to the forums!

Joe Marigold
Jeddo,MI
joe.marigold@hotmail.com

Joe, I can see you've been busy! Good work.

your at the right place. It may take a few days as teh stovebolt headquarters stay swamped with "things to do". Be patient with them!!
Thanks for sharing.

Thank you very much! I appreciate it!

Joe, I would love to see your pictures again...been lookin' for 'em, but couldn't find 'em. You are doing great work! Jim

Hey Joe, welcome to the forum. It is good to see young guys interested in our hobby. You are in the right place for help and information. Come back often!
Pete

Joe,

Nice work. Making lots of progress. Keep us 60-66 guys current on progress.
HB

Wow! Thanks I was so frustrated with the disappearing posts! I thought it was my fault or something that I was doing. Peggy and George M, a tip of the hat I will begin giving more updates soon!

Fellow Bolters,
It’s time for an update on the progress of my 1964 C-10 LWB. I have been so appreciative of all of the support that can be found on the forums. It is a real valuable service!

The project has been going slow and steady, the biggest two constraints (also the most common for anyone else) has been time and money! Since I checked in back in the early Spring of 2010, many things have taken place with the truck. I have become quite handy with panel replacement in the Floors and I have slowly but surely reduced the nervous jitters I get every time I get the paint gun out Cab and Box Painted . This being my first full restoration, a lot of my confidence rides on everything I have done with the truck so far. My father has been a huge help with wire wheeling the frame and applying the chassis saver, Front Suspension View 1 and putting the front suspension back together.

My last trip to the paint shop left me itching my head when they could not match the gray fawn poly for the interior. I decided to go ahead with rattle can paint for this job. I found the Krylon Satin Nickel from Wal-mart to be a close match, and much cheaper. Well, 12 cans later and many a raised eye by the cashier at the store (at the sight of me hauling cases of spray cans to the checkout), this was the result Interior Painted. I was very pleased.
This has been a long time coming, but I still have to load the doors back up with glass and finish a few things with the interior, and then all I have left is the front clip, which I have a good start already, with new inner and outer fenders. The hood will be the greatest challenge left.
I hope that all of my fellow bolters are getting excited about the quickly approaching Spring season, and are finding the time they get with their stovebolts as therapeutic as I do. The best advice is taken from the welcome center of the forums, “…leave your project for the day while you are still enjoying it… it will make you more likely to return.” So true, thanks for everything guys.

God Bless
Joe M.

Oh I almost forgot. Here's how my $50 worth of Amish cut Ash wood bed turned out. Made My Bed!

JoeM ...

"Fixed" the update. Let us know when you add more. We think it is something about copying and pasting from Word. But ... we still need to get that resolved.

Good update btw. Thanks for doing the links!

Peg

JoeM, you have done a fabulous job. Hats off to you for such a good job.....jittery with a paint gun. It doesn't look like it to me. Good Job.

Achipmunk,

Thanks for your support and kind words! I am doing my best to represent the youngsters of the hobby.

From Michigan

JoeM

Peggy M,

Thanks for all of your hard work to get this post put up. I did in fact do a copy from Word and I was noticing that this was where the problem was coming from.

If I do another large update I will shoot you an email.

Thanks for keeping things running smooth on the bolt.

JoeM

Very nice truck - love the bed!

Wow! Great work young man. And a lot of it too, as I've seen from all of the pictures. Great color scheme.

Tony

JoeM,

All I can say is JAW DROPPING NICE!!!!!! In a world where most guys your age (are all about 24in rims, air bags, and neon paint)
it's a thrill to "meet" someone like you! AND doing just about all the work yourself......... CONGRADULATIONS!!!! A job (so far) well done! Can't wait to see when finished! Give your dad a pat on the back as well!

Stranger.

Thanks for the kind words. I just love this old truck and attempting to restore it to its original beauty. I really am doing my best to preserve the past so that I may have my very own time machine! Thanks to you and all who support the hobby. There are such wonderful people who share our interest.

Tony D EL

Thanks for the encouragement and nice words.

I was very fortunate that that is the original color scheme. It is the 544AD code, which I am told is very sought after. It is a great shade of red that you don't see as much in new vehicles.

Cheers

JimF4160,

I really like how the bed turned out. It is solid ash that was Amish cut all for $50!

We were really inundated with ash after we had the ash bore kill most of the large ash trees. Thanks again!