I bought a 69 C10 Shortbed
I bought a 69 C10 Shortbed Stepside, January of 21. Covid was still a very big thing where materials, and the vendor's employees were concerned. It was really hard to get parts, the correct parts, and get them in, in a timely manner. I tried to do one purchase through one company for all parts all at one time, and got told no by the vendor. So I had to split it up between 5 vendors. That made it super hard to keep track of. Honorable mentions, Speedwaymotors.com and Summitracing.com are the only two that kept it together throughout last year. Everyone else ate stupid cookies by the box. We started restoring that March once the parts finally started showing up. However, due to manufacturers being shorthanded and a material shortage, they did not start showing up in the right order. Ridiculous lead times made it impossible to go in the correct order. But it was covid, we had nothing to do except work on the truck on the weekends. So we trudged on. We're both very experienced when it comes to turning tools, so my wife and I got greasy with each other. I estimate it has been 2 to 3 times more difficult than it should have been because of having to go back into an area or system multiple times because parts didnt exist. We travel for work so all we have is a very tiny 2 car garage and all my cool tools are in storage. It was a decent truck to start with that we bought out of Texas, we bought it off of Marketplace and had it shipped to us sight unseen except for a lot of facetime videos with the owner. He over sold it, we found more things wrong with it, more rust, and other issues here and there. We are now close to 50k invested into it. It is a restomod, it will be a very clean example when we are complete, which will be in the next month. Over a year of toil, troubles, disappointments, and small victories where we can get them. She is almost complete. If you want more details we have been pretty thorough with documentation of the process for scrapbook purposes. Literally probably onen of the worst times in history to restore a truck, but we've just about done it.