| ol' Big Butt... my Daily Driver GMC |
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| SITE ROAD MAP My C-10 The factory specs What's Left to work with What's been Added and What she's gunna have plus Where I'm at now 327 photos More 327 photos The 327 Rebuild Diary New Years Weekend 2007 327 Install |
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| The early History of my love affair with GM's Comfort Trucks Just 3 years after my High School graduation my dad bought a 1971 GMC. I was immediately recruited as the chief maintenance girl though I knew nothing about trucks at the time. The truck was yellow with a white top and had all of the Camper Special bells and whistles including GM's Invader 350. For many, many years that truck was a part of our family. Finally, after declining skills at the wheel, Dad gave the truck to my brother and me and, as many people our age would do, we sold it off to the first eager buyer. If I'd only known then what I do now... |
| Many years later ... My first re-introduction to C-10 fever began in 1989 with a scroungy '68 C-10 that I swapped for a car; manual, manual, manual and cobbed together worse than most that are still on the road. The worn out engine was cooled (kinda') by a strapped-in Toyota radiator, it had very subtle brakes and was such a rust bucket that I actually lost a soft cover book through the floor boards once. A truck of many colors... I LOVED MY NEW TRUCK! About that time I met the folks at Leadfoot Racin' and got interested in circle track. First approached for my lettering skills (on cars) I was soon sitting behind the wheel of a Demo car and later raced a year of Rolling Thunder. This was a weekly bump-to-pass"contact" class and I learned not only how to build an engine for my thunder car but to maintain that motor and it's car through the harshest abuse...in fact, at the time I was judging the engine's temp by oil pressure and steam...I'd long since blown out the temp guage! During the same few years, Joe, the co-founder of Leadfoot, and I began parting out Chevy and GMC trucks and I began to enrich my C-10 with all of the goodies it hadn't had before... power steering and power brakes plus a 4 Bbl and HEI,. I grew to know the trucks so well that I even knew to use a 10mm deepwell for that last fastener on the steering column... What a Grand time it was! Following that last year of racing I retired (with a Rookie of the Year award) to devote more time to my graphics and, sad to say, I got so broke during the endevour that I sold the C-10. I was, once more, truckless. |
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| My C-10 ... When I first saw my C-10 at the auction lot in 1996, the truck looked like any other battered up pick-up until I glimsed the leaf springs hanging out below. First thinking it was someone's hybrid joke, checking the build sheet soon dispelled those fears. Not only was it a factory leaf-sprung rearend but had a posi to boot! I nervously waited for bidding to end and but $260 later the truck was in my drive. At the time, the truck had just the origional block, heads and intake but no trany, driveshaft, distributor or carb. Due to my immediate need of a truck, a loaner small block was installed, a turbo 400 rounded up and new driveshaft and cooling system was built. The truck then hit the road and has been a driver since. The origional 327 was broken down, boiled out and promptly stolen. Bummer. and now ... Now, a decade later, I've purchased a medium journal 327 and trany from a matching truck and this is where this website's journey begins. My luck at finding an engine identical to the origional plus scoring the matching Turbo 400 and all of the brackets and bolt-ons seems almost too good to believe ... ... but there you have it ... GM truck owners are just really lucky people! A good deal of this site was created so I would have an on-line referance to where all of the brackets for the motor go but also as a means of soliciting feedback from those of you who have more experience than I do concerning the finer details such as paint schemes and placement of the componants. I've tried to take as many photos as I can but can't even come close to publishing all of them. If you see something mis-placed, the wrong color or style or anything else that doesn't seem quite right... Please e-mail me. If you need more photos ... Please e-mail me. Comment? ...e-mail me. NO Spam please. This website is in tribute to all lovers of these great trucks! ET |
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