First Wash in 20 Years: Satisfying Restoration of a 1960 Chevy C10 Barn Find

We found this 1960 C10 Apache sitting untouched for the last 20 years, and then we not only pulled it out, but we fully detailed it, got it running and driving again, and completely customized the truck bed, making this video one of a kind. And it's unlike any other video that we've ever made because we are going to be giving away this 1960 C10 Apache. I thought that this truck would be the perfect giveaway vehicle because I can imagine myself driving this on a Sunday with the windows down, with the sun out, with everyone waving and smiling to me as you drive down the street. You never see these, and especially not in as good condition as this one is. It's actually gonna be hard to give this thing away. And if I'm not mistaken, I think that the truck is almost all original and it only has 78,000 miles. But to get more details of the backstory, let me go grab the guy that sold us the truck. Chris, how's it going, man? Good, how are you? Good to see you guys. I'm good, yeah. Pleasure. How'd you get this truck? Well, this actually came from Georgia. My father-in-law bought it. I think it was sitting out in a field somewhere. He saw it, had to have it, brought it back here to Ohio. Pretty much rust-free. He was gonna fix it up and drive it, never got around to doing it. So we're really excited to actually see this go to a new owner that's gonna love it and drive it. Absolutely. I think you had said, if I'm not mistaken, that it came off the trailer running. It did. So it shouldn't take too much work to get started again. It should be good. There was a new battery on it. There was a battery tender on it for a little while. I think the rubber probably needs to be replaced on it. But aside from that, I think with some new fuel, you should be good to go. Sweet. Well, that sounds easy, but things are never as easy. But thankfully, we have our good buddy, Hussein, who's going to be doing all the mechanical restoration on this truck. We are even gonna have some of the interior reupholstered. Definitely new tires, because this wheel over here looks insane. I don't know if you guys have seen this yet, but we have some dread that has left the chat. So we are going to make sure that this truck is not only looking amazing, but running amazing, so we can do this awesome giveaway. Our first giveaway ever. Chris, thank you so much for the opportunity, man. Appreciate it. So head over to wdautosupply.com, because right now, every dollar you spend equals one entry to win the 1960 Chevy C10 Apache. This week only, every dollar spent gets you 20 times the entry. So if you spend $5, you get 100 entries. And that multiplier applies to every dollar that you spend on the site for this week only. So don't waste any time. Click the link in the description below for your chance to win. All right, time to get her out. Hey, this thing rolls nice. And while we push this truck out, I just wanted to say thank you guys, because without your support, we wouldn't be able to do a giveaway like this. And we're also looking at this giveaway as a way to give back to you guys, because throughout it, we're also gonna have some awesome mini prizes. And honestly, the coolest part about all of this is you could win this truck just by purchasing one thing off of our website. I'm not trying to put ideas in anybody's head, but imagine buying one bottle of interior cleaner and winning a 1960 C10 Apache. But now it's time to get this thing back to our shop so we can really see what Chevy was doing to their trucks 65 years ago. Back at the shop with the C10 Apache, and this thing looks flippin' awesome. I love these old school trucks. I love how big the cab is, how big the hood is, and then how tiny the bed is. Although it's actually pretty long, it's just not very wide. I just love how much character these old trucks had from the chrome details that they have that are carried around. Obviously the windshield, this design here, and then all the way through the back. Another feature that I really, really love is this kind of like 1960s spoiler looking thing. It looks sweet. I don't know if that's what it was necessarily for, but it does lip out. So I'm assuming it pushes air up and over the bed. Although I don't think they were that concerned for fuel consumption back then. I don't think they really were pushing for big MPGs like they are today. No way. I don't think MPGs were even in the question with the trucks from the 60s, that's for sure. But just like RJ said, I do love these classic trucks. There's just something about them, the character about them. I usually hate trucks that have these side steppers, especially like newer design trucks that have this, but there's something about this design that it just fits. It just works unlike any of the new stuff, man. And I wanted to talk to you guys about some of the things that we're gonna do to fix this truck up before it goes to one of you. I have a great idea for the bed. So we realized, you know, we kind of bought this without doing too much looking around it because it is in such great shape. The underneath is clean and I don't think it's gonna take too, too much work to get running, but we still need to make it very nice so that someone is excited when they win it. And one of the things that we realized, I thought that this was actually what the bed was lined in, but if I pull out this extremely heavy piece of plywood, you can see that a lot of the original wood has rotted out over time. So we're actually going to have each one of these removed. I think we're gonna go with a really nice maple or a really nice oak. A buddy of mine, he actually has a YouTube channel as well, and he does something called fractal wood burning, which is very dangerous, but it looks awesome. And I don't think it's gonna take away too much from the classic aesthetic of the truck, but it's gonna make the bed look beautiful. So we're gonna have each one of these removed and we're gonna have brand new pieces of either oak or maple or whatever he thinks is best with some cool lightning designs through it. And I know it sounds corny, but just wait until you see it, it's gonna be beautiful. I think the bed's gonna be maybe the coolest part about the whole entire truck. And he makes really good content. So you guys are gonna be able to follow along and see all the work that he puts into recreating this bed later in the video. Something cool about this truck is it has a Georgia plate on from 1960, so this might be the original plate with the truck, I'm just not too sure, but that's gonna come with the truck as well. Again, we don't wanna change too many things about this truck, we wanna just update it and make it newer for someone who wins the truck. So these little lights, we're gonna get some new bad boys of these. And then another feature that we're gonna have to do to make this truck just safer whoever wins it is these tires are gonna have to go. So we're gonna get this wrapped in some new rubber, but we're gonna keep that classic design. We're still gonna clean them up just as they are, that makes it easier for the tire shop and also to show you how well our products work. And the coolest part about this video is that if you guys are entering the giveaway by buying the products, you guys can see how well they work in the video. So you know what you're buying before you buy it and you're entering to win a truck. I don't really know what's better than that. Anyways, we're gonna clean up these tires even though Hussein's gonna go get them changed out for us later in the video. Now we're gonna unveil what the paint looks like underneath all that dust with our pre-wash. I wanna ask the question of the video here, so leave your answers in the comments below. What truck has the best looking front end of all time? I've never seen a truck that looks like this front end, but you guys tell me what you like the best in the comments. All right, under the hood of this C10 Apache is a 3.9 liter in line six. As you guys can see, it's in a little rough shape. So we're gonna clean it up using our citrus degreaser. Whoa. So we're gonna clean it up using our citrus degreaser. Hopefully we can get a lot of this grease off because this is going to be taken to a shop called Forza Automotive and they're gonna try to get this bad boy up and running in this video. I think Hussein can do it. I think so too. So luckily, again, this truck didn't have any mice by it. So I don't see a lot of wires that have been messed with. I do see a lot of wires that are pretty old so they might need to be replaced. But besides that, we have a good start here. And I think with his help, we'll be able to get this bad boy up and running. So what do you guys have? My question is all this space in here, what is the space for? Can you add something, bigger engine? Why is it all this? No, all this space is here so that you can actually work on this thing. The beautiful thing about old cars is they're easy to work on. You can reach everything, is easily accessible. A lot of new trucks, it's almost impossible even to get to the spark plugs. And I love old trucks like this because there's just so much space and it was just so much easier. All right, let's clean it. And I'm gonna bet that that blue comes out really nice. So let's see. I think it will too. Now with our cherry sets on the truck, we're gonna start by using a very soft brush and getting into all those nooks and crannies that our watch mitts might miss. And while we're cleaning this Apache emblem, I wanna test you guys. Do you know what Apache means on this truck? If you know why they called it the C10 Apache, leave a comment down below. All right, now it's time to clay the car. And I was going to take time to talk about our iron kryptonite and how it's safe for base clear cars, or in this case, a single stage lacquer paint job. But instead of doing that, I'm actually going to show you guys how soft this lacquer paint actually is. And what I mean by soft, I mean that it's easily removed, it's easily scratched. It's also very easy to polish, which makes my job very easy. What's kind of crazy is this is so soft that I can actually remove paint by just using a clay bar. I'm gonna actually get the back of this mitt to get it a little wet, and then clay the car like normally. I'm gonna use this yellow towel to wipe it away. And it pulls the paint right off the car. That's all that dead paint that was oxidized that was on the surface. And yes, clay bar technically is a form of sanding. I mean, polishing is sanding, sanding is sanding, and claying is sanding. You're using something that's abrading the surface and removing paint. So you can actually see the difference. This is significantly brighter and very marred compared to areas over here. Moving on to the interior of this classic truck, I have to say there's something so satisfying of a simplistic interior. There's not much going on here, but that's what I like about it. These trucks weren't meant to have all kinds of amenities. They were meant to be used for work. And nowadays, of course, everybody wants some amenities that this thing's missing, but that's kind of is the part of the charm of something like this. We do have some aftermarket gauges in this truck that I've noticed, and some wiring that's gonna need to be gone through. But besides that, we have a good amount of things in here to work with. And luckily, this thing hasn't seen any mice or rats or any other critters. So hopefully this interior is gonna come out really nice when we're all finished with it. Now for a truck that's 65 years old, it is in pretty good shape, but there's some things that we wanna address before we give it away to you. And the first thing for sure is this seat. Now we will be still cleaning it, but we wanna get this thing reupholstered for you guys because we wanna have a nice clean seat in here. Another thing I noticed is this truck has pretty good floor pans in, but it's obviously missing carpet. Another thing we wanna put in there is some carpet for you guys. In my past, I've done a lot with car audio and home audio. So I noticed this truck is missing the factory radio. Now sourcing an original radio for this truck would be very difficult, but they make a lot of aftermarket options that look classic. So we're gonna try to source something like that so that you guys can listen to music while you're driving down the road. Are you gonna install it? Because you've installed radios for me in my past cars when I was even a teenager. I have to really get into the weeds with the wires here and see what's going on. I can't imagine it's too complex, but I also have to look in where the speaker placement is in here. I'm assuming that it just has one or two speakers that are laid under the dashboard somewhere or on top here. But yeah, maybe I'll be the one to install it or maybe Hussein will take care of that. Also last thing, do you think 77,000 miles for this truck being this old is a good amount of mileage? I mean, it definitely was used in its day. This truck, it doesn't seem like it was beat up or like used for heavy work. I think somebody bought it and enjoyed it. And then, you know, as time went on and ended up sitting, it shows the wear in the seat. Like I said, somebody sliding in and out. But I think that it's good that this has some mileage on it. Adds a character. So first things first, I'm gonna get this seat out and then we'll get started on these floor pans so we can put in some fresh carpet. Okay, now we're gonna do something pretty cool with the door panels. First, we're gonna clean them entirely and then we're gonna take them off. And that's because we got some new pieces for them. So that door handle, that's all old and worn out. We were able to source a new one that we could switch it out for. And we're gonna take the levers off and shine up the chrome on those. Plus polish the paint on them and make them look really nice and shiny again. So we're gonna put it all back together at the end of that while keeping that cool patina, but giving it a refreshed look. All right, I'm in the process of getting this carpet put in and I didn't know that there was no pre-cut hole. So I laid out the carpet and slowly but surely I cut out all the areas where the seats will be bolted down. I cut out the areas for the gas tank and basically custom fit this carpet. This is my first time doing it so please don't be judging me too hard. I think it came out pretty good. I mean, look at that gas pedal. That looks great. Gas pedals in, got flaps for everything. And I'll cut this a little bit better once it's all fitted in with the seat. Cool. All right, now it's time to polish the truck. And like I mentioned earlier, this is my favorite kind of paint to polish. It's single stage lacquer, which means it's very soft. It's very easy to correct. I'm not going to chase all the scratches though because the paint is super thin. So I really don't wanna blow through the paint and have to paint the hood and have it mismatched with the rest of the truck. So I'm just going to chase away the oxidation using Oberg Supreme Polish and their foam polishing pad. Just again, to remove that oxidation and reveal the depth of color and make this truck super glossy. And why would we polish the paint without polishing the chrome too? And now it's something that we were all most excited about and that's this truck bed. As you can tell, it's in really bad shape and we need to figure out how to fix that. If we're going to be giving it away to one of you, we can't let it look this bad. So RJ reached out to one of his buddies from college and we made one of the coolest looking truck beds of all time. And thankfully Trevor from Bruce Burns Woodshop on YouTube just came up and dropped off the wood slats that we're replacing. So let's take a look at them. But before we show you the final result, we have to show you how we got there. So Trevor was nice enough to take footage of what he does for us. So you guys could see the whole process and do not try this at home. This was performed by a trained professional. And if you guys wanna see all of his other work, I have his Instagram and his YouTube linked down in the description below. Check out his pages and give him a follow because his stuff is really cool. But fractal wood burning is really cool. This is actually the first time I've ever seen it or heard of it. If any of you have heard of it or seen it, leave a comment down below. But basically what he does is he soaks the wood in a baking soda and water solution, which makes the wood more conductive. And then he connects a hot and a ground lead to the wood from a microwave transformer. And the transformer puts about 2000 volts of electricity through the wood, creating a fractal pattern. We decided to go to this route because we've seen some of his work before and we thought it would add a really nice touch to the truck. And it would give it something custom that we've never seen in any other truck bed before. All right, Trevor, so we're about to flip the wood and I'm a little nervous already because this side is extremely glossy. I did not want it to be gloss. Yeah. So please tell me the other side is. Oh, they're matte. They came out really nice. You guys are gonna like them. Let's see them then. All right. Flip this one out of this one? Yeah. All right. Oh my God, dude. Holy crap. Those look amazing. Wow. Wow, look at that. Holy smokes. Dude, that is gorgeous. What kind of wood is this? This is black walnut. Holy crap, dude, you absolutely crush it. This is so beautiful. Oh my God. I bet you guys like them. Yeah, this is, I mean, there is no other truck bed, maybe in the world, that has this pattern or aesthetic. Yep, six coats of spar varnish on there too. So it should last a really long time. Wow, how long did this take you? Two weeks. Two weeks? I was on a tight timeline. I got it done just in time. Finished up two days ago. Let them dry. We kind of put them on the spot. We told them we really need this done. So, man, this work is incredible. Like, I want, do you make like charcuterie boards or like home pieces, like tables or anything as well? Charcuterie boards, wall art, tables, everything. Anything you need. Now truck beds too. This is so gorgeous. It's almost a shame that it's going to a truck bed, but it's not, because it's gonna be one of the coolest truck beds the world's ever seen. At least for sure on a C10 Apache. But dude, I gotta say, this is incredible. Thank you so much. Where can people find your work? Where can they watch your content at? Bruce Burns Woodshop on YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, and burnswoodshop.com. You can put in a custom inquiry for a custom piece and find pieces I have for sale on there. Cool. So you also videoed this whole entire process as well. I think we're gonna include a little bit of it, but I don't want to spoil the whole video for you. But our viewers can watch how you actually did this whole entire project on your channel here in like a week or two after our video was live. Yeah, it should be. I edited everything on my own, so it'll be probably a week or two after you guys, but I recorded the whole process so you guys will be able to see everything. Cool, cool. Guys, please go give him a follow. He did such an amazing job. This is a little buddy of mine from college, so I'm a little biased. But nonetheless, Trevor, thank you so much. Guys, again, please go and support him. And let's go ahead and get this bed fitted. Now, as we get the wood fitted, you guys will see that amazing before and after before we take it to Hussein at Forza Automotive to get this thing running and on the road again. So the guys over at WD have dropped off their truck. They want us to go through it, just make sure it's mechanically sound, look good to run and drive. So first thing we're starting with is just draining oil, get some fresh oil in the motor. We're gonna go ahead and do some spark plugs on it and then try to fire it for the first time. So while Dylan's draining the oil, I'm gonna go ahead and start pulling the spark plugs and getting the new ones put in. Definitely tell they're old. Black and city. Big difference in the two spark plugs. We got the oil drained now, so next step is we're gonna go ahead and drain the old gas out of the tank just to make sure that we don't suck any of the old barnacy gas into the carburetor or anything like that. Also try to go through the gas cap and get as much of it as we can, empty it out of there. As you guys can tell, a lot of old, nasty gas in there, see how yellow that is. So we thought there was a bunch of fuel in there, but it doesn't seem like nothing really wants to come out. So we're gonna go ahead and add a little bit of fresh gas in there. I pulled the seat forward and was tapping on the tank, didn't really hear any fuel in there. So we got all the gas in there, we're gonna go ahead and get a new fuel filter from the parts store, put it on, and then start cranking it over and see if we start getting clean fuel up front. So we got the new fuel filter on there, got the jump box on here. We're gonna go ahead and try to crank it over for the first time, see if we can get some fuel moving up front. Starting to get fuel up the filter. Well, it started, so that's a good sign. Now we're just gonna try to keep it running a little longer, see if we can get fuel up to the carburetor. But actually the motor sounds really healthy. We didn't hear no weird noises or anything. Seemed to run pretty smooth. So the gas from WD just dropped off some new tires, so we're gonna go ahead and get the wheels off the truck, the old tires broken down and get the new rubber on there. Then we're gonna attempt to do a first drive in it. And guys, while we're watching these tires get replaced, do me a favor and go to Hussein's channel, Forza Automotive. He's become a really good friend of ours and so is his family and the guys over at Forza. They're all awesome people. And they did all the work on this truck for us absolutely for free, just to help us give it away to you guys. They wanted to be a part of this because they love the car community and they wanted to be a part of something special. So everything that you're seeing and everything that Hussein filmed, they did 100% for free. So please take a second, go subscribe to them because we're also gonna be doing more stuff with them in the future. And you're gonna be seeing him on our channel a lot. Just wanna do a quick systems check, see if everything's working as it should. So we're gonna go ahead and try the emergency brake. We're on a little bit of an incline here. Okay, we don't roll, so that's good. Next up, wipers. Wipers work good. Choke works. Next up, headlights. Let's go out there and check, see if they're working. All right, headlights are working. Let's check out the taillights. Doesn't appear the taillights are working. Next up on the list is gonna be our turn signals then and taillights. And then this heat upholstery should be all good to go. Oh, I like it. I wish it was mine. So we're gonna take for a test drive up the road, see how everything goes, see how everything feels in it. I like it, it's quiet, nice. Motor runs nice and smooth. Yeah, it's beautiful. Wow, you look like Sanford Sun. Wow, it's been tired too. Nice. Seems good, not getting hot or anything. Running pretty good. Three on the tree's a little weird. It's not very often that you drive a manual transmission on the column, but getting used to it. But overall, everything feels pretty good. We're just gonna head back to the shop now and do a once over on it, check, make sure all of our lights and everything are working properly. Next on will be the upholstery of the seat. So we're gonna start with removing the old upholstery. We gotta go ahead and get all the old ball rings off first and remove all the vinyl. You guys can see the old patterns, the seats have already been covered once before. You guys can see it had a cool checkered pattern before. We're gonna go ahead and just leave this on there though just for the extra strength and rigidity just because it is old. So this is the new design we decided to go with. Thought it looked pretty cool on it. All right guys, that concludes our video on the 1960 C10 Apache. You guys saw us do so much work, more work than we've ever done on a vehicle ever in the existence of WD. And you have the opportunity to win this truck. And all you have to do is go to our website and purchase any of our detailing products or any of the merchandise on the site. And for the first 10 days of the giveaway, we are offering a 20 times multiplier, meaning that every dollar spent gets you 20 entries and a better chance to win the truck. And I'm so proud of all the work that went into this and we could have not have done this without all the people that helped, including Trevor who helped us with the bed or Hussein who helped us with all the mechanics or Wyatt who helped us with all the filming or Leon who let us come here to his place of work and use his big turntable and be around all these cool supercars. And especially we could have never done this without you guys. We could have done none of this without you. And we thank you so much for giving us the opportunity to do something so cool. And we just wanna say thank you from the bottom of our hearts. So if you're interested in winning the truck, go buy some detailing products or some merchandise. And if you liked this video, give it a thumbs up. If you wanna see more, hit subscribe. We're gonna see you next week and please check in next week cause we have another amazing car. Actually this whole month of March, we have amazing cars. So every Saturday at 9 a.m. we'll be here and we hope you are too.