Ron Hilbert's 1971 Chevy C-10 Pickup Truck Project

Miracles Do Happen

July 26th, 2005 Nick got the engine started for the first time in 13 years.

When the engine has not been running since 1991 we were bound to run into several issues, and we did. The first was a rusted coil, corroded distributor… I spent all of my birthday July 22 working on the truck with Nick of C.A.R.S. but to no avail we just kept running into problems and could not get it started. The truck was supposed to be on display at my birthday party on Sunday so I took the intrested parties down to the shop to see it's shinny paint job.

After Nick got it running and the starter and fuel pump replaced I took it over to the body shop for them to install the rear videw mirrors.

Ken Pike installing the mirrors on the doors

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