This is the fifth 73-87 truck I owned, and by far the ugliest...so I named it Frankenstein.  I purchased this truck off E-bay with the intentions of cleaning it up, selling it, and making a small profit on it.   As you can see, the truck had seen better days and needed a lot of TLC.  The first thing I did was to remove the topper, running boards, and mangled rear bumper.   After that I removed the mouse-eaten seat, cleaned the interior of all its garbage from the previous owner, and put in a nicer junkyard dash bezel to replace the broken original one.  I then purchased and installed a nice seat from the same junkyard, and washed the truck numerous times inside and out (it was extremely dirty).  Because it had four mismatched tires on it (all worn too), I picked up a complete set of matching, and free, tires from a buddy and mounted them on 4 spare Rally wheels I had laying around.   Although the truck looked good from 15 feet away, it had a lot of rust, a few paint jobs on it, and more bondo than I care to mention.  Since the truck ran and drove pretty well, I was able to sell it and actually made a small profit like I had planned...all while having fun bringing Frankenstein back from the near dead.

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After

Year:  1976

Make:  Chevrolet

Model:  Silverado, C10 LWB fleetside

Engine:  350 cubic inch V8

Transmission:  3-speed automatic

Differential:  12 bolt posi, ratio unknown

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