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Offline Darenwedds

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1975 C10 Rescue and revive in South Africa
« on: March 28, 2017, 02:55:48 PM »
Hi,

I am from Pretoria, South Africa. I have recently purchased an old 1975 C10 with a straight 6 motor that has been standing for a few years. My idea is to simply get it running and legally back on the road. Then maybe some modifications will be done later.
I've joined this forum to look for tips and advice. Just thought I would share my project.























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Offline 82silverado

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Re: 1975 C10 Rescue and revive in South Africa
« Reply #1 on: March 28, 2017, 04:35:07 PM »
Looks like you got yourself a project. The first thing you might want to do is put the steering wheel on the proper side. Lol!! Joking of course. Welcome to the board.
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Re: 1975 C10 Rescue and revive in South Africa
« Reply #2 on: March 28, 2017, 04:58:07 PM »
neat, thanks for sharing and welcome to the site
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Re: 1975 C10 Rescue and revive in South Africa
« Reply #3 on: March 28, 2017, 06:53:40 PM »
I've never heard of a right hand drive square body. That's pretty cool. Good luck, looks a lil soft
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Offline Darenwedds

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Re: 1975 C10 Rescue and revive in South Africa
« Reply #4 on: March 28, 2017, 10:16:34 PM »
If you look closely you'll notice the rear taillights are also very different from the American pickup. I'm not sure the exact reason. But I believe GM south Africa was able to dodge some sort of import taxes back in those years if they "manufactured" part of the vehicle in South Africa. So all the parts for the pickup were imported and assembled on production lines here but the pickup bed was made locally and and therefore we have completely different tail lights. Not sure how true or accurate this reason is. But fact is GM made the pickup bed locally with local materials for some or other reason in those years.
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Re: 1975 C10 Rescue and revive in South Africa
« Reply #5 on: March 29, 2017, 07:15:06 PM »
International bed.  Many Mexican beds have that same setup.

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Re: 1975 C10 Rescue and revive in South Africa
« Reply #6 on: March 29, 2017, 07:55:15 PM »
Could have been early prototype design, and the tooling remained for international models because they didn't need rear side markers. Looks pretty similar to the '68-'72 style trucks.

Pretty common for international models to have slightly different designs-across all car manufactures.


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Re: 1975 C10 Rescue and revive in South Africa
« Reply #7 on: March 29, 2017, 08:01:57 PM »
Not a prototype, google Mexican C10 Bed...

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Re: 1975 C10 Rescue and revive in South Africa
« Reply #8 on: March 29, 2017, 11:12:20 PM »
That's cool, lots of work there.
In the pic with the tail lights, what's the blue truck in front of the 75 and next to the tractor?

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Re: 1975 C10 Rescue and revive in South Africa
« Reply #9 on: March 30, 2017, 02:52:35 AM »
The blue truck was a 68, but when I drove into the tractor dealership the blue truck was sold.

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Re: 1975 C10 Rescue and revive in South Africa
« Reply #10 on: March 30, 2017, 06:14:57 PM »
Too bad

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Re: 1975 C10 Rescue and revive in South Africa
« Reply #11 on: March 31, 2017, 01:48:20 AM »
Welcome from central California. The international bed design is pretty cool, it's a neat fact about these trucks outside and rare to the US market.

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Re: 1975 C10 Rescue and revive in South Africa
« Reply #12 on: March 31, 2017, 03:22:14 PM »
welcome from maryland


heres one with side marker lights think its an 86
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Re: 1975 C10 Rescue and revive in South Africa
« Reply #13 on: March 31, 2017, 10:59:10 PM »
Looks like it's got the 73-80  rear bumper style.

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Re: 1975 C10 Rescue and revive in South Africa
« Reply #14 on: April 01, 2017, 12:27:24 AM »
Here are some pictures of my Grandfather's C10 pickup which he bought new in 1979. Now belongs to my dad.

 In the second pic you can see how the proper South Africa rear tail light looks. the top half is orange (indicator) and the bottom half is red (Break light).








My brothers and I have been asking our dad for years to let us "take over" Grandad's truck and "hot rod" it slightly. We got as far as installing cool 33 12,5 r15 inch wheels (outlaw 2) and a second hand cheap V8 which came from the USA. (called a "cut-out" motor here in SA. I.e. the V8 motor is literally "cut out" of old delivery vans and pickup trucks in the USA with cutting torches in junk yards and then sent to SA Engine shop  http://www.rocket88.co.za/used-v8-engines/chevy/ ) But further than this....... the Old man was having no more power or "coolness" added.

 Hence we realized that if we want a C10 that can do burnouts and donuts or maybe adding a turbo to boost the power slightly, we'll have to find our own truck cause dad is not allowing any modifications to his precious hierloom.
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