The Chevy C10 is undoubtedly one of the most popular vehicles out there in terms of customization, and while the popularity is great for aftermarket support and parts, it’s not so great for those builders looking to make their C10 unique. However, Marcus Gibber out of Vacaville, California got around that issue by taking inspiration from the other side of the Pacific, as featured in the following three-minute, 47-second video.
“I built it for myself. I built it to drive it. I build it to enjoy it,” Gibber explains. While those are certainly all praiseworthy aspirations, it just so happens that Gibber’s 1970 Chevy C10 was also in the running in this year’s SEMA Battle of the Builders competition, an annual, nationwide event recognizing the best of the best from the world of automotive customization.
This video documents Gibber’s thought process for the build, while also showing off the Chevy C10 prior to completion.
Gibber started by putting the pickup on a Nissan frame, fabricating new tubular control arms for the front end and a three-link wishbone suspension for the rear. The truck now rides on airbags, slamming it to the pavement over 20-inch by 12-inch Dropstar wheels. The wheels are wrapped in stretched tires.
“It’s a stretched tire because I kinda wanted to tie in the Japanese styling with the stretched look, the JDM style,” Gibber explains.
There’s extensive body work as well, including a molded Silverado front bumper and Frenched license plate. The bed was also cut and moved forward, then blended and uni-bodied with the chopped cab.
More Japanese inspiration can be found under the hood, where the Chevy C10 is powered by a SOHC, 12-valve four-cylinder KA24E engine from a 1991 Nissan.
“It’s something I want to have good gas mileage, be a good, solid driver that I can jump in and drive across the country to a car show if I want to go,” Gibber says.
Check out the complete video below:
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Comments
That’s a GMC grill not a chevy
Very cool. Young people like Marcus give our hobby/industry a boost, hope, and inspires others to keep the creativity and dollars flowing.
I’m so over these super slammed vehicles.
A four banger, and a GMC grille… sacrilege
Nice truck I actually converted my 67 GMC to a 67 chevy with the 67 grill.if anyone needs a GMC grill I have the original available pretty solid.
Is this a joke if I saw this down the street I’d laugh till my guts ached what a waste of a good truck if you want to build something like this why not go buy a Nissan in the first place and destroy it instead of stuffing up a classic
Does this guy shop for all of his parts at the wrecking yard and whatever is cheapest becomes running gear with the ugliest taste in building and desecrating a Chevy truck remember it’s not a Japanese car or a crotch rocket some things are not made to be cross-bred with junk and a Chevy C10 is not one of them
Actually, every piece of Chevy that this truck was built out of was being thrown away by someone “to bad to build off” so it was going to be scrapped, and i build custom stuff sorry bolt on Brandon
Really are u freaking kidding, so you had a Nissan
truck that wouldn’t pass smog. Dude you got it backwards your suppose to put big motor in.
Not a little piece of poop. Too bad you ruined
a nice American truck.
Wow what kind of happy s*** is that I don’t understand why someone would put a Japanese engine into an American truck it’s like you’re digging through scrap and you put anything and you can find kind of like a rat rod but a lot worse I’ve seen a guy put a Toyota in a Studebaker truck from the ’40s and it’s funny because he can drive it anywhere and everywhere but you could also do that with a Chevrolet engine
I think it’s a great idea because it’s a small engine. It will have great gas mileage and will look cool doing it. it can be driven every day and parts are cheap I say great job it’s going to look awesome when it’s done
That’s not slammed, that’s butchered.
Poor SOB ruined an American classic, now he’s a monster. I kinda feel bad for the guy. But I guess that’s what you get for such a douch bag move.
I can appreciate his work but man what a bunch of haters out there. It’s his f#cking truck he can do what ever he wants just like you haters do. Grow the f#ck up..
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Is this a joke???
I dig it , i like the engine idea easy simple good to go . You can actually enjoy it , need more free thinkers .