1979 C20 from Bowling Green KY

[toddbgky]

Hello guys, new here. I've been slowly nursing my latest squarebody (a 79' C20 that has been in the family for 35 years) back to a respectable state and thought I'd sign up here to share info with other members. I work as a design engineer at Holley Performance Products (Hooker exhaust product design is my sphere of responsibility) here in Bowling Green KY, so if there's any technical info I can provide from behind the doors of Holley Engineering, just shoot me a PM and I'll see what I can provide. This is the third squarebody I've owned and have accepted the fact that I'm always going to own one so I might as well make it a nice driver instead of driving a turd around town.

[zieg85]

Welcome from NW Indiana.  Sounds like a car guys dream job to me...

[toddbgky]

Thanks for the welcome. There's certainly other less interesting things I could have ended up doing to earn a living so I don't have much to complain about. The worst part about it for me is being so far removed from friends and family as I'm a transplant from California. At least they passed a law here recently to allow beer sales on Sunday, so things are improving incrementally for the better.

[audrima]

Welcome from WV!!!!! I been to bowling green had to pick up a front clip for a broncoII there Vary nice area!


o and pictures! I have 78 myself been in the family all it's life (my grandpa then me ^_^)!

Mariah

[FlatBlack77]

welcome dude!

nice of you to offer your wisdom

lets see some pics  of your truck man

[toddbgky]

No problem on the photos; the timing to take quite a few is good since I'm taking all this week off of work to work on the truck and burn up PTO time that I'll loose by the end of the year if I don't use it. The truck has quite a story to tell as it was owned by my Dad many years ago and then found its way to my brother who took it down to Mexico (yes, Mexico for real, not New Mexico) for use at some rental property he owns down there. The property is right on the coast, so the salt air destroyed the cab and bed, which required that I search for replacements. I found both by acquiring another 79 that took a dead-center frontal impact from a tree or pole from a guy in Texas and I raided the cab and bed off of it before parting out the remains. At this point the beds have been swapped and the donor cab is in the garage waiting for me to do some repair work on it so I can paint it come spring time...it's a good truck but it's plenty ugly at the moment. I'll get a thread going this week and get some photos up so you guys can get a look at this thing before the major work starts.

[DustyRusty]

Welcome from Alaska. Quite a story on the truck!

Rusty

[toddbgky]

Thanks for the welcome guys. I put up a photo of the truck in the build thread under "79 C20 resurection". There are so many projects that have to take place to get this thing right again that I'm sure I'll be posting up numerous threads in the project section by the time I complete the project.

[illinoisk30]

Welcome from Northern Illinois.

[hobbz]

Welcome from Ashland

Hobbz-garage.com

[OneLowOneTon]

Welcome from ky man

[jaredts]

Welcome from Simpsonville, KY!  I know an engineer that used to work at Holley.

[Irish_Alley]

welcome from maryland