TRICK 1967 C-10 on 20×10 Colorado Custom wheels

JASON MULLIGAN . October 03, 2022 . All Feature Vehicles

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A Custom Truck Worthy of a Dream Garage

Many of us can trace our love of cars back to spending our childhood afternoons and evenings in the garage watching, and later helping, our fathers work on or build custom cars of their own. That’s very much the case with Maurie Hoover, who helped his father drop a Caddy motor into a Merc more than 40 years ago.

Since then, Maurie has crafted a long list of race cars and customs. The pair also drag raced for many years. About a decade ago, Maurie finally got back into the custom car scene with a few trucks, muscle cars and a show-stopping ’67 Nova.

“It started life as a ’72 with a ’67 slope nose front end.”

A 5.3L LS was topped with electronic Hilborn stack injection as well as a Vintage Air front runner kit.

Here you can see that the back of the bed has been molded together and canted forward. A custom Camaro bumper with exhaust exit tops things off.

Finally, he and his wife Lynne set their sights on building a full custom C-10. It started life as a ’72 with a ’67 slope nose front end. The build team was headed by Maurie and builder Don McDavitt of Lake Havasu City, Arizona. The fabrication was immense, incorporating all of the tricks of an old-school kustom applied to a modernized C-10. Maurie has brought the custom C-10 into the modern age with plenty of electronically controlled components, but he’s kept some of his family heritage with electronic Hilborn stack injectors sitting atop the LS engine. The C-10 is a culmination of the automotive history of the Hoover family, combining kustoms, trucks, muscle cars and drag racing.