Acquired this gem earlier this year and have been slowly making my progress with her. Have had a few project vehicles but this is my first all out build, still on a learning curve with some trial and error lol, starting my tread out with how she started up to now. Was lowered a little already but was done wrong, had cut and headed springs in the front. The rear had a flip kit and notch, (notch is not big enough which i will be replacing on this tear down) also first thing on the list was tinted windows...
Has a stock 350 with 4 speed bull dog, motor has newer model heads and has been switched over to rollers. tbi had a few issues so i just removed it as the motor needed a little dressing to begin with
Not a big fan of the single headlight front ends and have always been partial to phantom grills on a square body even though I know they have been done to death. so i got a new support with the dual headlights (upper/lowers) so i could run the full phantom without having to recess the single light it had. truck had some mild damage on both front fenders so i replaced the passenger side due to the damage in the body line and kept the driver side.
Next up was to remove the 2 massive fuel tanks and put in the 20 gallon fuel cell. even with jacking it up the tanks were a pain in the ass to remove. After removing the tanks to some time with a grinder a flapper wheel to clean up the old neglected frame, mocked up the cell mounted it between the rear frame rails with some angle iron.