Greetings guys! Just thought I would share my build up of my 1971 Chevy C10, Project:71.
This truck is being built as what I would call a "resto-mod". Keeping the great parts of this truck, but making it more up to date as far as performance and comfort. Its my first ever build, and I am still learning the correct processes of getting everything done. Now saying that, I do regret doing some things like the paint as early on as I did. I guess thats all in the learning process!
Hope you enjoy!
I bought her while I was out on a deployment through may dad and good ol craigslist. After he went and checked it out, I forwarded him the cash and TA DA!!! my first truck... This is the only set only pics I got to see of it for those next three months
Not much going on there, but boy did I find a killer deal on a good canvas! From there I started pondering ideas of different suspension options, what to do with the interior, engine ideas, oh and WHAT COLOR?!?! you could say I changed my mind every time I changed my underwear, and I give props to those who put up with the changing ideas.:cheers:
So the first step I went with was changing out the suspension. If you look at all my vehicles I have had in my past(Im only 23 and have had 9 vehicles) none of them have stayed at the stock ride height. I dont think that will ever change either! So I made friends with the guys over at suicidedoors.com now qualityairride.com and bought up everything I thought I would need to get this puppy lower to gods green earth.
This is where that got me...
Now that I had been home from that deployment for a little while, I started scouting out different car shows for color ideas. Boy was that fun! I went from light blues to white, to oranges, them back to white and then I saw this beauty at the GoodGuys show in DelMar, Ca.
Thats right! Its RideTech's Velocity Camaro. Im sure a few of you have seen and heard about this car. I was in complete awe! I knew I had to have that color. I talked to a few of the guys working the booth trying to get some information about it but they just didnt know. Finally, I found one of the big wigs of the company and he was more than happy to share with me. At that time, Velocity Orange had only been a custom mix for that car by DuPont and by the time I was ready to spray, it was on the Hot Hues line of available colors.
During this whole time, the truck was in Northern Colorado at my dads house getting modified, sanded, primed, and sanded some more.(My father used to do paintwork back in the day) so every once in a while Id get pics to this nature
I had some custom touches I had him do, and I would go out to Colo for a week and help do some other things such as shave the firewall of the wire tray, heater box, and blower
Cut and shave dash(dont hate me purists)
Then shave the side markers and original door mirrors
Back to the days of priming and sanding
While on another deployment, I started getting pictures in my inbox like these
YES! Thats right, color!!!
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