1962 Chevy C10 Build

Take a look at the pics that pcbuilder14 posted of the 68 model and you'll see the same raised character lines as your bed. The 62 step side fenders had a pretty sharp horizontal crease above the wheel. Look at the photo you put up on post 17. Your fenders don't look bad, and if this is just a "drive it and enjoy it" truck, I wouldn't worry about it.

 

100% truth. My best childhood memories involving vehicles were riding in my grandpa's '79 full size Ranger with rust holes everywhere, including the floor pan, and my Uncle Tom's Rolls Royce. Nothing memorable about riding in a gas-sipper, unless you count the horrific 30-mile move with my whole family and all of our cats plus a dog crammed into an '88 Ford Festiva. But I try to forget that.

 

To each their own, do what makes you happy man

 

I have a 1965 c10 that I plan on starting clean up on in late january, motor is siezed so I'm thinking of just putting a LS or LM7 in it with a T56 behind it.
It has the 3 on the tree but according to my dad it's worn out (He drove it when he was younger and the last time anyone drove it was '83) so I'm gonna see what I can use the 3 on the tree lever for to look kinda factory.
https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/1965-chevy-c10-restoration.419097/

 

Believe it or not, you can you the 3 speed column shift on your 4 speed. It makes what was originally your reverse into 1st gear; original 1st into 2nd, and so on, and so on. Of course then you have to find a way to engage reverse. I worked with a guy at a VW dealership about a hundred years ago that drove a 65 Mercury Comet with a 289 and 4 speed. He wrecked the Comet, so he pulled the engine and trannies and stuffed them into a 63 Ford Econoline Van and hooked his up that way. He then used the emergency brake lever to put it into reverse. Probably not what you want to do, but a classic example of "redneck engineering."