C10 Builder's Guide Spring 2023

THIS IS DEFINITELY my favorite issue of the year! I mean, what’s not to love about another jam-packed issue of the baddest trucks on the planet, right?! Butttttttttttt, this is also THE SEMA issue, and to top that off, we also put together something super cool to celebrate “The Big Kat” himself as sort of a tribute to what the Dino’s Git Down gathering has become. That’s right, SEMA and Dino’s Git Down all in one giant badass issue highlighting some of the coolest trucks AND PEOPLE around! Dino Battilana has been a personal friend for years, even before the “C10 craze” came back around. We go wayyyyy back! That’s what is honestly so neat about this industry. It’s a fairly small niche, and even though it seems like a…

THIS ISSUE, WE WANTED TO DO SOMETHING A LITTLE DIFFERENT IN THE PARTS SECTION BY HIGHLIGHTING SOMETHING SUPER NEAT HERE FIRST! TOTAL COST INVOLVED RECENTLY LAUNCHED ITS NEW C10 CHASSIS LINEUP THAT SPANS SEVERAL C10 GENS AND CHASSIS OPTIONS. WE’RE GOING TO DIVE IN A LITTLE DEEPER AND SHOWCASE SOME OF THE COMPANY’S LATEST AND GREATEST FULL-CHASSIS CHEVY C10 OFFERINGS WITH A SPECIAL PRODUCT SPOTLIGHT ON THESE FULL-CHASSIS PERFORMANCE BUILDS THAT HAVE THREE LEVELS. Spanning from 1963 through the 1987 squares, TCI has been in the chassis and suspension game for decades. Over-engineering is its specialty, and that’s just what the company did with three new full-chassis solutions. Check them out! The Rundown TCI is proud to offer three new and complete 1963 through 1987 Chevrolet C10 chassis options. The…

“‘I wasn’t positive what I wanted at the time,’ Kenny says, ‘but I knew it was going to be a Chevy.’” SOME PEOPLE have ideas, and some people have contacts—and others have BOTH! Enter Triple C, which stands for Custom Car Consulting, and its mission is to be the bridge between the owner and the builders to help bring those wild ideas to fruition. Kenny Johnson started Triple C back in 2017 and it has flourished with time. Kenny’s connections help him connect the dots for many clients who sometimes don’t even know where to begin. Back in the mid-1980s, Kenny first got the taste for custom vehicles from his father, Holand “Skipper” Baker, who built a showstopping 1957 Chevy truck. When Kenny decided to purchase a vehicle to show…

IT’S BEEN SAID THAT ONE MAN’S trash is another man’s treasure. Located in a salvage yard right outside of Lone Grove, Oklahoma, ready to be scrapped, was the show truck Kyle Rhyne plucked from the pits of destruction. As a child, Kyle was extremely close to his grandfather Gary, who had a hobby of building and restoring rare and unique vehicles. “I always looked up to my grandfather,” Kyle says. “My favorites were his ’48 Chevy fastback and a ’53 Chevy sedan.” Trying to earn enough money for his first vehicle, Kyle got his first job cleaning an office building. He eventually found an older Celica for sale but couldn’t afford the full asking price. His grandfather stepped in to help him purchase it by paying the remainder of the…

DINO Battilana is a certified Chevy truck specialist, which is exactly what his show, Dino’s Git Down, caters to every year in Phoenix. While he gives GM-pickup enthusiasts a place to gather every year, he also makes sure to keep his garage filled with Chevy pickups of his own, with the latest of his projects being this short, dark, and handsome ’73 squarebody that he affectionately refers to as the Black Widow. Now, before your imagination wanders too far off, let’s get one thing cleared up. Dino isn’t some sort of evil Chevy warlock or anything like that (OK, maybe he is a little bit). The name of his truck came from it being totally infested with black widow spiders since the day he took ownership of it. In fact,…

THERE’S A CERTAIN ADVANTAGE TO growing up around automotive shops. The knowledge gained from being around shops can possibly be an overload at an early age and might steer you away from the family business, but on the other hand, if you embrace it, it can propel you to learn and go further than you ever thought you could. Jason Froelich’s parents started Classic Collision back in 2000 in Canton, Ohio. As Jason got older, he became the collision repairman and his brother Chad was the painter. With Jason’s parents in the process of retiring soon, Jason and Chad will be taking over the shop and thrust into taking over the business. Of course, when you spend your childhood and teenage years working on vehicles for other people, you get…