Texan's 1969 Chevy CST/10 project

[texan_idiot25]

Just ****in' around to the older forum I havent been to in ages...

This truck is the proverbial found it behind a house type story. My neighbor had it stored at a friends of his's house for a long while. It was gonna become a work truck, but it was too long to fit into his garage. So he offered it to me for $500. Its a (rare) 1969 Chevy CST/10. CST is short of Custom Spor Truck, the top trim level for the Chevy C10s in '69. Much like how Denali is top ranks for the Yukon. Only 6% of all the pickups in '69 were the CST package, and around an estimate 5000 or so in my trucks configuration, The longbed CST10, as opposed to shortbeds/CST20s/CST30s/etc

For the sake of time, Im just gonna quote from my thread on XMW:

As of yesterday, Im now the PROUD owner of a 1969 Chevy CST/10!





This isnt at my house yet. Were gonna rope tow it this saturday.

$500, the guy who owns that cougar, he let me have it for a deal. He was gonna sell it online for 2 grand, but would rather it be in my hands.

No engine or trans, but the body is straight, and dent free. Just rusted at the rocker pannels, but its not like thats uncommon, and classicparts.com has replacements for 20 bucks. The interior is rough. Its a short bed, long cab configuration. And its the rare CST/10. Only 2000 were made in '70, so I assume the figures are the same, if not less for the 69.

He offered it friday afternoon, check it out that night, was grilled about responisbility all weekend, pulled all my cash from the bank sunday, bought it that night.

I was gonna do the GMC, but this is something you cant pass up.

Things todo:
-Already have a EFI 350 small block from like a 96 Tahoe?
-Possibly a 700R4 Transmission, its the one my dad had in storage. Its a 3 speed auto w/ over drive
-Paint is Harley-Davidson Orange, and in good shape. Just really needs to be washed.
-all the works to make the engine run, andlegal.
-some trim pieces around the tail lights and tail gate are gone. No big deal
-Painting those farm-truck-white rims black.
-disk brakes upfront

7am, and the morning is still cool. We jump into a friends truck, and head out.

Todays Mission: Pick up the CST/10.

So we get to the house its stored at, and back in the GMC pick up we borrowed for the day. chained it up to the CST/10, I jumped into the GMC, my dad took the CST/10. Things were tight (pull the CST/10 around a Camaro, across a drive way that goes over a ditch, and pull a tight right turn into the coldesac). No problems, nothing hit.


tow bar hooked up.

Thats GM brother hood, lol. GMC pulling the ol' Chevy.


And off we go. No misshaps towing it to a $1 pressure washer station, besides the CST/10 front tires screching around tight corners from stops. We spray some engine degreaser all inside the engine bay, and go get some drinks while it soaks.

Coming home was almost un-eventfull, at on point the hood poped up and caught the 2ndary latch, and one motor mount vibrated out, and off (landed loudly) once we got into our neighborhood.

Pull, up, un hitch, and the 1st before-cleaning-picture:


After an hour, and 2 buckets of water later, she's all orange again! :bling:






the difference

Its been dubbed "OrangeCrush". My grandma stepped out, and saw it. She said "Oh my, Yall should call it OrangeCrush".

So, I dig the name. This will be a slow project, all depends on what cash I make, Ive gotta pay for it all.

Time to get a job...

For its age, its in good shape. The rust is only in the common trouble places, that there is patch panels galore for. The rockers have it, and the front fender, right at the bumper, and the passenger A-pillar are the troubles spots so far, and a weak cab corner that flexes when the passenger door is opened. That will be fixed, and the A pillar will be fixed. The rest can be done later when the exterior gets a total make over later on down the road

Whick isnt that much, when you see what other people start with, I got lucky, .

The last owner did some **** job on wiring. Not the guy I bought it from, but the one before him. Wired the fuel pump to a switch under the dash, but not to say a oil pressure switch. Also the sony tape deck thats in and amp is wire and twist nut land. Thats all going. We might try to fit a sub from an escalade in the passenger cab corner, and some new door speakers. Since thats all available for pretty much free from my dads work.

We going to make custom door panels, just planing out materials and what design right now. And a custom grille. One is dirt easy, the other is a lil more complex, but should have a cooooooool effect. Both are about the same price to do.

Its mesh vs. plexiglass. Either do simple black mesh, or what he thought up was buy some clear orange plexiglass sheets, and cut out slats. Mount one on top another with about 1/8 gap in between. Then at each end of each slat an idea was to wire in LEDs to light the grille. Maybe even making that the front turn signals if you know what I mean.

Try to imagin that in your head :P

Abit of work done, and the interior is about as stripped as we need it. With the exception of all the wiring which needs to be re-done.

Got the a/c blower to come on

Radio now stays on

Door panels gone, steering wheel gone, glove box fixed

Cowl vent screen made, and installed:



Interior:
Yes, the gas guage says full... lol




Basicaly just saving up cash right now, so when we order parts all at once, the shipping will be cheap.

Thats just a bit of it, goto http://www.xmodworld.com/modules.php...wtopic&t=22470 for the full thread, an arguement on springs, and more details and such.