We’ll kick off the Medeiros double feature with his second project to go under the knife so to speak, his “heartbeat” ’67 SWB. According to Slick’s, “We were building a patina’d C10 for Steve when he came across this OE big-block/big-window’d C10 that was already painted and LS-equipped, but … once we got the truck to the shop, we realized it was in need of a lot more parts and attention.”

As with the ’69, Slick’s wasted no time in righting any wrongs and bringing the C10 up to theirs—and Steve’s—standards. Updated was the 6.2L LS3, which received a Holley EFI and coil-less valve covers, and CFV front accessory system, all surrounded by a “hand-built custom sheetmetal engine bay/firewall.”

The Classic Performance Products (CPP)–equipped and four-linked chassis was further modernized with an Air Lift Performance 3P (pressure-regulated) air management system in contrast to its brother’s static suspension—though it received the same 20-inch Detroit Steel Delray wheels semi-concealing 14-inch Wilwood discs (mounted on CPP drop spindles) up front and 12-inch CPP discs (mounted to the 10-bolt’s Strange Engineering axles) out back.

The paint existing was merely cut and buffed out with a raised Mar-K bed wood floor (oak with painted strips) added; the existing patterned brown vinyl interior was spruced up with a Dakota Digital RTX gauge system (powered via a Slick’s-installed American Autowire harness) and a Forever Sharp billet wheel atop a Flaming River column.

As Slick’s adequately surmised the project, “The whole reason we built this truck was to have a clean show truck to match his ’69 patina C10.” That story continues starting on page 20.