Hooniverse Weekend Edition: A Rad 1969 Chevrolet C-10 Truck via Speedhunters
Welcome to the Sunday Edition of Hooniverse Weekend Edition. Let’s start with this radical 1969 Chevrolet C10, built by custom Hot Rod fabricator, Rob Phillips.
The posting for this hot Chevy is up over at Speedhunters, and beautifully photographed by Linhbergh Nguyen. According to the posting:
Like many other young boys, I grew up liking cars because of how they looked. In my ignorant, youthful eyes, some cars looked like spaceships, others looked like monstrous beasts and, of course, there were the cars that looked unexplainably cool. When that little boy transformed into a government certified automobile operator, the first thought was, of course, to buy a car and make it look as cool as possible. Driving functionality was secondary to visual aesthetics.
This was the case with hot rod builder, Rob Phillips. He built up a 1969 Chevrolet C-10 to be toured around at cars shows across the country. And like many show built cars, the performance aspect was left on the back burner.
Rob’s life changed completely when he was invited to drive his truck at a Pro Touring event that coincided with the car show. He took his truck out, flogged it like its never been flogged before, and was completely baffled how another C10 down better times than him.
After a bit of investigating, he found out that the other C10 was running on some upgraded suspension components. The corner carving bug bit Rob and bit him hard. From then on he’s been transforming his show truck to become a cone dodger.
Read the entire posting here at Speedhunters. Images are from Speedhunters.com.
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That is a really sweet truck. Good job, man!
Autocrossing a fullsize, 40+ year old truck warms my heart.
…and Speedhunters/hellaflush/Slammed Society/etc., are fantastic just because of their photography standards alone.
It's a beautiful truck, but it would be even better in my eyes at something closer to stock ride height, with a period correct wheel/tire combo. I'm not a fan of low-pro tires on most vehicles, let alone something of this vintage. Performance tire/rim sizes from the era would probably suit me best.
You can't make these trucks handles sitting high above the ground with 5" side walls, trust me.
It's a pro-touring truck, and it's a beast.
hey, finally this shows up! (got notice in my email when it did, but nothing I did here would make it appear… clearing cache, restarting, etc.) anyway…
I realize I may have been better off keeping my big mouf shut, but since these are my favoritest of all pickup trucks, to see them lose even a tiny bit of what makes them so truckalicious, I couldn't help it. Pro Tour just ain't for me, I guess.
That's nuts. I love when people autocross what they've got, as opposed to just racing what everyone else has got. Enough Miatas and Corvettes, let's see some different!
I've missed Speedhunters, I think i'll start going back again. Same goes for Hooniverse. I usually take a few minutes to poke around but rarely comment. Time to change that.
That two-tone paint is lovely. Reading this makes me want to look into autocrossing my '97 F-150.