Classic Truck Performance

1963 Chevy C10

When you live out in the country and drive a pickup truck, well, it’s tough to stand out in a crowd and get noticed on the streets, especially when every other vehicle you pass on your local country road is of the bedded variety—that is unless you are Byron Loucks of Glenville, Pennsylvania.

Byron ain’t like the other truckers out there in the farmlands of Central Pennsylvania. When he designed his future hot rod pickup, he knew from the start he wanted something a little bit different than the typical rides he saw at his local cruise night. What he desired was something built with old-school style blended with some modern underpinnings and basted with a flakey golden hue. Well, he got that and even more with this stunning shortbed 1963 C10.

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The tale of this truck starts way back in 1991. After a succession of cool muscle rides, like a 1956 Chevy, 1965 GTO, and a 1967 Firebird 400 drop-top, Byron decided he needed a hot rod truck in his life. “A lot of people preferred the second-generation (1967-1972)

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