Meet "HIXO"
A fresh, frame-off, 1967 C10 restomod built by
Bennett's Garage in Mesa, AZ.
What we have here is the stuff of dreams.
Wet ones.
An adult-owned 1967 Chevrolet C10 that needs literally nothing but a new home. As you can see this is no ordinary daily runner. Simply put, it’s as sharp a driver as it is a looker, thanks to a talented builder by the name of Jason Bennett.
If you know anything about the current C10 craze, you’re no doubt familiar with Delmo, who recently relocated his C10 empire to Prescott, AZ and Dino, whose annual AZ “Git Down” is the C10 event of every season. Yes, Arizona has rapidly become the Shangri La of the C10 movement. It's also home to a Mesa-based C10 enthusiast who is rapidly making a name for himself.
Which leads us to the C10 truck we’ve nicknamed “Hixo," for reasons we’ll get into later.
But first, a little background on this tidy '67 C10.
One morning, Jason was minding his own business-- which happens to be the business of constantly looking for suitable C10 candidates for his shop’s specialty‑- when he passed a truck he'd never seen before while en route to his shop.
A quick U-turn later, he was standing in front of a local transmission shop talking to its owner about a 1967 C10 that was wearing his favorite outfit: a faded two-tone factory paint job and Arizona plates.
A quick once-around revealed a bone-dry AZ body and no body damage beyond the little bumps and bruises that come with the territory for a fifty-year-old driver. Exactly what he looks for in a restomod candidate.
The transmission shop's owner explained that he’d recently taken the truck in trade for a sand rail and had just finished giving it a once-over.
Popping the hood, the owner revealed a fresh ZZ4 crate engine mated to a 700R4 transmission. The truck was as straight and rust-free a C10 as Jason had seen in a month of truck-hunting Sundays.
Jason immediately called his business partner, and made a serious cash offer on the spot.
Chaa-ching.
Bennett had just saved himself a lot of metal work.
In no time flat, he'd wheeled the ol' girl into his shop and went to work, removing the drivetrain, the glass and the interior, ultimately revealing just what he’d anticipated—a bone dry Arizona body with no surprises.
With the body off the frame, Jason did what Jason does, stripping, repainting and C notching the frame, in preparation for his shop's specialty: a performance-enhancing static drop.
Within a few short months, the faded C10 was properly whipped into shape and the next fully resto-moded C10 to roll out of Bennet’s Garage was ready to hit the streets.
It was time to pay a few bills.
Jason did a photographic shoot-around of his static dropped beauty and put the truck on Ebay, where his builds routinely spark heated bidding wars and garner boo-koo bucks amongst those who know what they're looking at.
Cut to a renowned graphic designer in Austin, Texas by the name of Mike Hicks.
Mike was sitting in front of his computer monitor and had popped onto Ebay, was a customary between-assignment ritual, as he'd been on the hunt for the right C10 for months.
Being a detail-oriented kind of guy, he had passed on more air-bagged C10s than he cared to admit. Mike was looking his dream truck, a 67-72 C10 that needed nothing but a tank of gas and was ready to answer the call of the open road. That was set-up to handle and didn't have its bed butchered to "lay frame".
He'd done his homework and set aside a small mountain of cash for that one fine day that he found his dream.
That day had come. (Read more and see tons more pics...)
Wet ones.
An adult-owned 1967 Chevrolet C10 that needs literally nothing but a new home. As you can see this is no ordinary daily runner. Simply put, it’s as sharp a driver as it is a looker, thanks to a talented builder by the name of Jason Bennett.
If you know anything about the current C10 craze, you’re no doubt familiar with Delmo, who recently relocated his C10 empire to Prescott, AZ and Dino, whose annual AZ “Git Down” is the C10 event of every season. Yes, Arizona has rapidly become the Shangri La of the C10 movement. It's also home to a Mesa-based C10 enthusiast who is rapidly making a name for himself.
Which leads us to the C10 truck we’ve nicknamed “Hixo," for reasons we’ll get into later.
But first, a little background on this tidy '67 C10.
One morning, Jason was minding his own business-- which happens to be the business of constantly looking for suitable C10 candidates for his shop’s specialty‑- when he passed a truck he'd never seen before while en route to his shop.
A quick U-turn later, he was standing in front of a local transmission shop talking to its owner about a 1967 C10 that was wearing his favorite outfit: a faded two-tone factory paint job and Arizona plates.
A quick once-around revealed a bone-dry AZ body and no body damage beyond the little bumps and bruises that come with the territory for a fifty-year-old driver. Exactly what he looks for in a restomod candidate.
The transmission shop's owner explained that he’d recently taken the truck in trade for a sand rail and had just finished giving it a once-over.
Popping the hood, the owner revealed a fresh ZZ4 crate engine mated to a 700R4 transmission. The truck was as straight and rust-free a C10 as Jason had seen in a month of truck-hunting Sundays.
Jason immediately called his business partner, and made a serious cash offer on the spot.
Chaa-ching.
Bennett had just saved himself a lot of metal work.
In no time flat, he'd wheeled the ol' girl into his shop and went to work, removing the drivetrain, the glass and the interior, ultimately revealing just what he’d anticipated—a bone dry Arizona body with no surprises.
With the body off the frame, Jason did what Jason does, stripping, repainting and C notching the frame, in preparation for his shop's specialty: a performance-enhancing static drop.
Within a few short months, the faded C10 was properly whipped into shape and the next fully resto-moded C10 to roll out of Bennet’s Garage was ready to hit the streets.
It was time to pay a few bills.
Jason did a photographic shoot-around of his static dropped beauty and put the truck on Ebay, where his builds routinely spark heated bidding wars and garner boo-koo bucks amongst those who know what they're looking at.
Cut to a renowned graphic designer in Austin, Texas by the name of Mike Hicks.
Mike was sitting in front of his computer monitor and had popped onto Ebay, was a customary between-assignment ritual, as he'd been on the hunt for the right C10 for months.
Being a detail-oriented kind of guy, he had passed on more air-bagged C10s than he cared to admit. Mike was looking his dream truck, a 67-72 C10 that needed nothing but a tank of gas and was ready to answer the call of the open road. That was set-up to handle and didn't have its bed butchered to "lay frame".
He'd done his homework and set aside a small mountain of cash for that one fine day that he found his dream.
That day had come. (Read more and see tons more pics...)