1960 GMC K1000 Blue, Black, Chrome, And Bare Metal.

Please enjoy the video its a slide show of the build blog post.

1960 GMC K1000 Build Blog Slide Show For Blue, Black, Chrome, And Bare Metal Post. 

Shes ALIVE!

Blue, black, chrome, and bare metal is the color scheme for this truck the bare metal will be showing up throughout the truck where it finds itself being.

Don't forget to check out my 1964 GMC 1000 project there's a link to the right.

Went with blue bolts seemed to pop better!

Oil base paint again on the manifolds will be chalk white in a 1000 miles or so.

The wiring got a little dicey around the motor on this truck had some going around the front and had some going around the back lol.

Got everything straighten up and redone with new wire everything goes around back, then the alternator wire comes up the left side.

1000 temp paint.

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1960 GMC K1000 Cant Beat A V8 350 With A Stick!

 Sadly this truck has had the big block V6 removed and discarded by the P.O do to 6 mpg. It dose have a 1975 V8 350 crate motor in it with 20,000 miles that i sure the hell cant complain about. 

Don't forget to check out my 1964 GMC 1000 project there's a link to the right.

When i bought this truck it had plates on it so almost everything to do with this truck running down the road is new, wiring front to back, tires, alternator and battery the only thing that this truck really needed to be road worthy as a daily driver is a brake job.

What we have planed here is another clean up along with a high rise intake a 4bbl and chrome valve covers a little re wiring and a tune up. 

We will also be hitting the engine bay with gloss black. 

The truck has had many coats of paint org teal, primer, dark blue then raddled can silver and metallic blue.

The last coat of blue flakes off when you run a putty knife a crossed it so it has to come off thankfuly its not every where.

A little pre view!

Everything cleaned up and ready to go this motor took minutes to clean and was spotless inside the engine bay was another story though it took some time i wet sanded for at least 3 hours after scraping off the flaky blue paint.

Used the old valve covers to protect the heads from paint.

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1960 GMC K1000 Wheels Tires AXLES And BUMPERS!

Wheels tires AXLES and BUMPERS! What else would describe a 4x4 this truck was the first factory made 4x4 ever by gm before that it was a special order napco kit. All i have to say to that is don't fix what isn't broken because nothings as tough as our trucks built in the 60's! 

Don't forget to check out my 1964 GMC 1000 project there's a link to the right.

Cleaned with simple green then wet sanded and cleaned again.

Took around 4 hours down here with a wire brush a putty knife degreaser and the hose with a nozzle on it.

Using rustoleum brush on oil based paint for a nice thick strong coat runs about 30 dollars a gallon.

Sanded and cleaned the bumpers with simple green as well before paint.

American steel still rolling down the road!

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1960 GMC K1000 Lighting The Night.

After your push bumper is finished up lights are the next upgrade every 4x4 needs. This is a relay set up updating the old way of wiring headlights and increasing the power by up to 30% giving them a true bright.

Don't forget to check out my 1964 GMC 1000 project there's a link to the right.

This is also another simple upgrade with some know how and a few basic tools.

 Lights mounted.

Need power with inline fuses to your relays.

 Once your power goes in the relays it comes out and goes to the lights then the relay is grounded and has a self powered switch coming from in the cab to control the lights i have also hooked the front headlights up to relays as well high and low beam hooked up with the org head light switch.

All the parts i used where from NAPA auto parts right on the shelf made it out of there with everything but the wire for under 80 dollars.

Relays are also a great way to ramp up the power to your horns!

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