Todays Project - What did you do today?

[TomG]

My son and I drove to Rising Sun, Ohio last night to check out a 1965 Chevrolet C-10 pickup for my brother in law. When we were up to the cabin on vacation last week he mentioned that it would be fun to have a vintage pickup up there to drive around, so I called his bluff and found this one on Cragslist. It turned out to be mostly original, unmolested and driveable, so we trailered it back to Detroit. After spending the day going through it to see what needs to be done, we found that other than some lower rust repair and rotten oak boards in the bed, it's in pretty good shape for a 49 year old truck.

What it did need is some work on the transmission linkage. Three in the tree is hard enough to deal with as it is, without worn out and missing shifter rod bushings, so I made up some nice new ones out of bronze. It's amazing how much it improved the feel of the shifter, from vague and pretty much un-driveable to crisp and easy to shift.

We'll spend the next week or so going through it, then my son will drive it up to the cabin in Naubinway. The truck only has 46,000 miles on it so a 360 mile trip shouldn't be too much of an issue. I hope?

Tom