C/L find then bought

[qksilver]

I will have some pix in the morning. The temp is going to drop below freezing tonight and guess what I have forgotten to do..........

Saw it on C/L Sunday night, 5 post selling parts off of a 66, then a post for the whole truck. 66 LWB fleetside with 5 lug disc front conversion and 5 lug rear, 305/350 trans, nice seat and new front and rear glass. Cazlled him, we talked a while and joked about some of the people we have met off of C/L. I told him I would buy the whole truck but couldn't come up until Thursday, my day off.

He had lots of calls and people were going to come up Monday and Tuesday to get stuff. He asked me to call him in the morning, Monday, so he could check out the stuff I wanted in day light. Called him and he said if I could come up Thursday he would hold the truck for me. I was very surprised and happy.

Picked it up today, he told me a guy down the street from him wanted to buy the bed if I would go by his house. He would take it off, he didn't have a way to move it cheaply. NP, made the sale, 1/3 of what I paid for the truck!

So, got home in the dark and started checking out the truck, 5 lug conversion, front and back, new ball joints, brake hoses, master cylinder. P/S box! with new hoses hanging, somebody took the P/S pump and brackets. New radiator, 2 core though , factory metal coolant pipes, nice score but no radiator shroud and nice headers.

Checked out the interior, nice mismatched black smooth bottom seat with a black scrolled top. lots of misc side chrome and redone door vent windows. There am in the dark with a big smile, truck is still on my trailer , so i get a couple of milk crates to see what the casting codes are, the engine is painted like a ford blue and has new head gaskets etc and looks like it was decked, so no #'s. Pulled a valve cover got one casting numbe.r

Wrote the castings numbers down then got under the truck to see the trans, really clean with a rebuild tag with 9/10 on it. Truck hasn't been driven with this trans........because the truck came with a power glide, the guy who sold it to me said it was a 350 but no, a 400 trans! the drive shaft was tied up, 2 piece with new u joints and carrier bearing............bigger smile.

Got so involved with the casting numbers and all the nice finds, so I go in the house and the casting numbers come back as a.........

So i have a 010 block 70's, with at least one 75 350 head big valve, nice! Then I hear that it's getting down to 27 and say oh S#$%! While I am draining radiators at the house, 3 trucks, the ones at the shop are either empty or fresh antifreeze, I flash the light on the back of my new truck and have to shake my head. It is a BBW cab! lol, after loading it, then selling the bed and all that other stuff, never realized, so, a great buy for less than 4 bills. After messing with 67-72 trucks for so long, I got used to BBW, I have had 3 64-66 trucks for a while but they are stored behind the shop and I bought 2 months ago a BBW SWB fleetside truck, still, making a C/L score with all the little small parts I needed and what looks like a fresh engine, trans and suspension.

Life is good!

pix tomorrow

Steve

[AZ66GMC]

Sounds like a nice score


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[qksilver]

for this area oh yes, and it even has a title that matches the data plate!

[VA72C10]

still adding instead of removing inventory I see Ever get to the cheyenne super cab?

[kenmel]

[qksilver]

pix are coming! Sold pretty much every 67-72 part etc that I had to one gentleman. He bought my entire 67-72 inventory except all the parts for me to build my rust free 68 with almost every 68 factory option except for a tissue dispenser and sliding back window. The truck was an original swb cst BB with buddy seats.

I am going to restore it, all the parts I kept are dated coded correctly. He made me an offer..............I wasn't going to say no. Just in parts it filled a 20 and a 40 container , then the other 9 fairly complete trucks he had towed to a warehouse in Charleston , all to be shipped.

Yeah, I am basically down to the 68, a 65 van, a 78 2wheel drive blazer and a 66. I find it easier to buy parts trucks then individual parts sometimes.........

Pix of the c/l find later tonight!

Steve

[qksilver]

some pix..............still smiling, can't believe that I wish it had all 4 non ralley wheels on it instead of just 2.

Steve

[qksilver]

you wanted pix? here are some more

Steve

[Iron-Butt]

cool buy

[1963c-10]

Great buy

[csa daddy]

Looks pretty good what's up with that 55-59 chevy in background of first pic
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[qksilver]

57 GMC, safari/suburban whatever! the GMC version of the camino. I have all the pieces. The guy wouldn't sell me the whole truck, so over a period of 4 years I bought it in parts.

Now on the right side I have a 59 panel truck ..............check out my when is enough, enough thread. Everything is for sale but I will be honest, I am selling everything for top dollar. I have had all of it a while, it's paid for and so is the shop. Cashing out........everything but my 78 blazer and 66 swb truck. I have a some really nice muscle cars stored at the family farm in MD, that haven't been touched for at least 25 years. All my money is going toward getting those restored, but everything here in NC is for sale, except for what is noted above.


Steve