Here is my old Chevy C10 Bonanza that my mom named Clunky many years ago. It was bought new off the lot by my great uncle to work his peanut farm in Sylvania, Georgia. The first thing he did to it was rip out the nozzle hole in the filler tube so he could fit the lead fuel nozzle. He ran his farm equipment on leaded gas until he couldn't anymore. The second thing he did was cut out the catalytic converter. The truck has been passed down through my dad and on to me, so I'm a 3rd generation owner.
I'm part of a couple C10 and Chevy forums that I'm not super active on and the crowd is just a little different, so I figured I'd add it to the list of builds I have here instead. I'm less than two weeks away from summer vacation, so I'm hungry for a good summer project. I've been driving mostly on weekends, and my kid loves to go to school in it on Fridays, as my insurance is set up to allow me only 7k miles a year. The plan is to make it a good bike hauler so I can start to rest my '99 Grand Cherokee, which is about to pass 200k miles. Typically, I trailer the bikes to events with the Jeep.
I've done a few things since I got the truck, but hopefully the summer produces way, way more.
This is what it looked like when I got it home for the first time:
Here it is today:
It's a Bonanza, which was a dealer package that basically added the white wagon wheels to an already loaded Silverado.
The stock 305 has been swapped out for a rebuilt 350 with '87 Vortec heads, an RV cam, Edelbrock aluminum intake and a 600cfm Holley 1850 carb. The transmission is a TH350 that I rebuilt for my G10 van, but that van has been retired, so the tranny was moved here. I don't know how much of a fan I am of the Holley, and I definitely want to swap the transmission for a 700r4. I go back and forth one whether to do the LS swap and run a 4l60 transmission. That will more than likely be way down the road. Up next is further dropping it to 6" in the front and 8" in the back. We're currently at a 3" and 2" drop.
I'm part of a couple C10 and Chevy forums that I'm not super active on and the crowd is just a little different, so I figured I'd add it to the list of builds I have here instead. I'm less than two weeks away from summer vacation, so I'm hungry for a good summer project. I've been driving mostly on weekends, and my kid loves to go to school in it on Fridays, as my insurance is set up to allow me only 7k miles a year. The plan is to make it a good bike hauler so I can start to rest my '99 Grand Cherokee, which is about to pass 200k miles. Typically, I trailer the bikes to events with the Jeep.
I've done a few things since I got the truck, but hopefully the summer produces way, way more.
This is what it looked like when I got it home for the first time:
Here it is today:
It's a Bonanza, which was a dealer package that basically added the white wagon wheels to an already loaded Silverado.
The stock 305 has been swapped out for a rebuilt 350 with '87 Vortec heads, an RV cam, Edelbrock aluminum intake and a 600cfm Holley 1850 carb. The transmission is a TH350 that I rebuilt for my G10 van, but that van has been retired, so the tranny was moved here. I don't know how much of a fan I am of the Holley, and I definitely want to swap the transmission for a 700r4. I go back and forth one whether to do the LS swap and run a 4l60 transmission. That will more than likely be way down the road. Up next is further dropping it to 6" in the front and 8" in the back. We're currently at a 3" and 2" drop.