Re: Old Friend's Truck For Sale
I'm more practical now, and appreciate the trucks less modified as well these days. but this is the style I always went with. Built some ground pounders of my own back then. I don't see a highly altered from original form truck here. Body left as built with the exception of the cut out hood. Tube grille swaps right out. Interior was done stock-like with the glovebox door done to match the instrument cluster. The type of mod that is really just doing what GM should have or could have done if cost wasn't a factor. They made them match, but not really. I figure they left that up to me. They actually did start out that way until they started plating the cluster. I have had 8-10 glovebox door chroming in my time.
For me this style with never go out of style. We speak or era-correct. Well, there's more to that than just the era these trucks were built. These trucks have been through quite a few eras and nailing any one of them is just too cool in my eyes. Even the eras I ignored to stay with my favorite. The one these come out of. If I had the money I'd build one with tricked out metal flake paint, tru-spokes, crushed velvet, and I have a tin of trucks played out in my mind I have yet to see anything similar done. If I had the money I once had I'd...………………....
………….. But I don't. I just sit back and watch some ideas come to life by those who can.
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Tim
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