Chevrolet C/10 1967 Street Truck

This 1967 Chevy C10 is part of GM’s first ‘Action Line’ generation, the truck era widely credited with turning pickups from bare-bones work tools into vehicles people actually wanted to drive. Factory buyers could option as much as 325 horsepower straight from the showroom floor. Here’s what made this generation such a natural starting point for street truck builds.

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A one-line caption and a single photo don’t do justice to what 1967 actually meant for Chevrolet‘s pickup lineup. This was the first year of the C/K series GM would come to call the “Action Line,” a truck platform that quietly rewrote the rules for what a work vehicle was supposed to feel like to drive. Before this generation, trucks were built as tools that happened to have seats bolted in. What came out of Chevrolet‘s redesign changed that assumption for good, and this street truck build is a direct descendant of that shift.

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The Generation That Changed What a Truck Could Be

The 1967-1972 C10 is widely credited as the first modern pickup, a truck GM engineered with real attention to ride quality, styling, and comfort rather than treating those as afterthoughts. New sheet metal that resisted rust better than prior generations, a double-walled steel pickup box, a lower stance, and a larger windshield all arrived with the 1967 redesign, and the Fleetside body style’s smooth, flush panels gave it a cleaner look than the outgoing generation’s more utilitarian lines.

Power Options Built for More Than Hauling

Buyers could choose from six V8 options, topped by the L35 396 (actually 402 cubic inches despite the badge) making 325 horsepower and 410 lb-ft of torque, paired with anything from a standard three-speed manual up through a four-speed manual or automatic transmissions. That range of engine and transmission combinations is exactly why the C10 became such a popular street truck platform decades later: the factory already offered a genuinely quick truck before builders started swapping in anything more.

Why the C10 Became a Street Truck Favorite

That factory-strong foundation is exactly why the C10 turned into such a popular street truck platform decades after the fact. Builders gravitated toward the Fleetside body for its clean lines and started swapping in later-generation small-blocks, upgraded brakes, and modern suspension, while keeping the truck’s low, purposeful stance largely intact. It’s a formula that shows up again and again in the street truck scene: start with a chassis GM already engineered to handle real power, then push it further than the factory ever needed to.

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