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General Site Info => General Discussion => Topic started by: Darenwedds on March 28, 2017, 02:55:48 PM
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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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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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neat, thanks for sharing and welcome to the site
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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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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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International bed. Many Mexican beds have that same setup.
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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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Not a prototype, google Mexican C10 Bed...
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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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The blue truck was a 68, but when I drove into the tractor dealership the blue truck was sold.
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Too bad
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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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welcome from maryland
heres one with side marker lights think its an 86
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Looks like it's got the 73-80 rear bumper style.
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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).
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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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Looks like it's got the 73-80 rear bumper style.
but the tag says 86... and the website said it was 86
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Looks like it's got the 73-80 rear bumper style.
but the tag says 86... and the website said it was 86
(https://farm8.static.flickr.com/7649/16168441204_2d87089930_b.jpg)
Yep, front bumper is a 81+ just wondered if they used the older style bumper on that bed style.
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interesting.
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this is purely a guess but maybe cause the end caps are straight on the bed where the tail lights go? theres no body lines at all its all flush so the 73-80 bumper would be the only one that would fit. if you look at the other trucks theres a curve on the bottom just for the bumper
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this is purely a guess but maybe cause the end caps are straight on the bed where the tail lights go? theres no body lines at all its all flush so the 73-80 bumper would be the only one that would fit. if you look at the other trucks theres a curve on the bottom just for the bumper
The Mexican bed is flat across the back but the South Africa truck seems to have the same contours as our North american trucks even thought the tail light is very different
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ok, so theres a mexican bed and a african bed?
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There's a thread on here somewhere with pictures of Mexican versions.
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Another South African thread:
http://forum.73-87chevytrucks.com/smforum/index.php?topic=26364.msg219816#msg219816 (http://forum.73-87chevytrucks.com/smforum/index.php?topic=26364.msg219816#msg219816)
Brazilian version:
http://forum.73-87chevytrucks.com/smforum/index.php?topic=11634.msg86414#msg86414 (http://forum.73-87chevytrucks.com/smforum/index.php?topic=11634.msg86414#msg86414)
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So we made a list of parts required to get our old truck running again.
Now if you're an American sitting in the USA this task would probably be completed in a single day travelling maybe 30 miles at most to some local stores.
In South Africa however, this little list of parts takes on a whole new meaning when you're 10000 miles away from the USA and looking for 40 year old car parts. Then you are looking for "exotic" "import" parts from our point of view. So my dad went shopping at some stores where he thought they might still have some old parts available.
And we were totally in luck. To our massive surprise my dad was able to find brand new parts at really good prices. (Bearing in mind our ever weakening exchange rate and severe import duties and taxes).........anything we can find locally is a blessing from above.
If you can buy a part for a hundred dollars in the USA....... that same part will cost me closer to two hundred dollars once it reaches me in Pretoria, SA. So as boring and mundane as finding parts might seem to someone sitting in the USA....... over here in africa it is a huge victory.......like winning a small lottery prize. Still dreading the partslist of spares that will eventually have to come from the USA as that is gonna be very expensive with our horribly depreciating currency.
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Found brand new water pump, fuel pump, rotor, points, carb kit, headlights, spark plug leads and coil.
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Match books are pretty scarce any more, how are you gonna be able to set the points?.......LOL Set several sets w/a matchbook. Easier to find then the feeler gauge, more often then not.
I still have 1 engine that requires point's, 13 horse Acme. Italian made, as I understand it. I have it mounted on my log splitter. Every fall I cause them points! Get out the sandpaper an knock the crust off. Only issue I ever had with it. 40+yrs. old.
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So I have received my south African spec rear tail lights
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Also bororowed a BF Goodrich 33 12.5 r15 on outlaw2 wheel to do some measurements. If budget allows I would like to get these same tyres, but on OUTLAW1 solid rims.