This is a gallery of photos showing Bangshift.com's newest project vehicle, a 1965 Chevy C50 truck we call Goliath.

We're not loving the whole John Deere situation with respect to the paint scheme on the truck, so these wheels will be painted white when the time comes.

Currently the truck only has the outer wheels/tires on it, but it did come with the inner set of duals as well. We're totally installing these before the truck hits the road. The previous owner said that he could not get the rear wheels off. He did not have an impact gun or a torch though.

Note that the front wheels are five lugs and the rears are ten.

This badge makes us smile and makes one ton pickup owners chartruse with envy.

Simple beam axle in the front equipped with leaf springs. Neanderthal man technology is right up our alley.

Note that there are no "wheel humps" in the bed. The cargo box is actually made of quarter-inch steel plates and the bed sides are welded directly to those. Because the bed is raised up, there is no need for the wheel humps. This will make loading stuff easy. That large steel "job box" type storage container may hit craigslist, we're not really digging the amount of space it takes up.

The bed is actually mounted on top of a couple of four by four posts laid on top of the fram rails. This was done to provide the clearance needed to get over the big tires.

The homebuilt hitch will provide a good mounting point for when we hit the sled pulling events next summer.

Here's the steel that the bed was fabricated out of.

Note the bowtie in the tail light lens. We thought this was an interesting detail. Amazingly, all the lights aside from the headlights work (even the dash lights!).

The floors of the cab need to be replaced. Here's a view from beneath the truck looking up at the passenger side floor.

Here's the top down view. Yes, those are holes.

The seat is a goner as well. Small woodland creatures may be living in there.

The cab mounted gas tank is in pristine shape, although down the road we plan on getting it out of the cab for increased seat adjustment.

Rather than replacing the door, we plan on repairing this corner.

Here's the drivers' side floor which we already know needs to be replaced.

Fugly!

The doors have a couple of spots on the corners that we will repair.

Here's another spot on the passenger side.

The dash is spartan and cool. You'll notice the stick from the SM420 four-speed comging up through the floor. You cannot see the totally industrial looking lever for the hand operated emergency brake.

We're shopping for one bedside as the driver side bedside is very thin and full of small holes.

Note how the end caps are attached. Because this not a "real" Chevy bed, the only option is to weld them onto the end of the bedside.

Gross!

The mighty 292ci straight six that runs like a top. We think a normal light duty truck header will fit here. More research will get us the answers on that.

The carb is clean and the previous owner treated the fuel with Stabil before parking it. We sloshed some fuel in the carb, hit the key and the motor fired right up.

This single pot master cylinder is hooked to a remote vacum booster called a Bendix Hydro-vac.The actual unit it mounted on the frame of the truck underneath.

We think this is a vacum cannister than works in conjunction with the Hydroboost. We're still learning about all this junk!

This creeps us out. The milk bottle has a fair amount of oil in the bottom of it.

The motor is not too sloppy or gross. It has 87,000 miles on it according to the seller.

The manual steering is not exactly low effort.