My family is young.
What I mean by that- is my dad is 20 years older than me, my grandpa 40, and my great grandfather was 58 years older. So naturally, I knew all of my great grandparents pretty darn well. I was closest to my Great Grandpa Shadrick. He lived in the same cove as my grandparents farm where I spent nearly ever non school hour growing up. He taught me how to kill a rattlesnake with a forked stick, catch a coyote, ya know- redneck stuff. I should probably add here that I went to the preppy private school in the city during the week, and played redneck on the weekends. Regardless, I thought he was awesome. He had an f100 with a gun rack, bench seat, and his name on the dash in those old black and gold mailbox stickers: DILLARD
This is a tribute to him, and a chance to teach my son about cars the way that I learned about them, by fixing them.
on I saw this on craigslist Monday after looking for months. On the phone he said he'd take $2000 so I told him I'd think about it. I texted him back and offered $1,500 a day later, and he said he had a few people coming to see it at $2,500. I wished him luck on the sale, and that I would have come friday if I had known he was going to be around. He had told me before on the phone that saturday was the only day he'd be there... So that afternoon he texts and asked if I was still in for $2,000 and I said yes. Today my 8 year old and I drove up and hooked her up to blue.
To be honest, it's in pretty decent shape. Nearly all of the trim in in place, and the only bad rust I can find is the passenger floorpan needs replacing. The transmission does nothing at all, so I'll need some advice on that. The truck starts and runs ok, the heater core is bypassed of course. But all in all, really clean. I love it already.
So what's the plan?
Well, originally the idea was to buy an old truck for a quick flip, but then I found this one. It will still end up getting sold- but I've already had people that I car about wanting to buy it when I'm done, and that means it needs to be done right. Brakes, drivetrain, etc all need to be reliable and ready to put kids in. I'm going to have to paint it, which bums me out, but it's been done before so it's not like i'm killing original paint.
Question:
-This appears to be the first year of the c6, and so I'd like to keep this particular one with the truck if possible. Where do you go for a rebuild? This seems way out of my skill set.
All in all that's where this sits. It's in the shop now and I'm hoping to get started tomorrow night by checking out the motor in closer detail.
