1989 Crew Cab Service Truck - Big Red

[80schevyaddict]

Howdy. Thought since I browse the forums here a lot that I would get off my butt and actually register so that I could post my own little build thread.

I have owned more than a few third gen chevy trucks over the years (I actually have 5 in the yard at the moment and 4 are complete runners). But one that I have never seemed to get my hands on was a crew cab model. Hard as hell to find up here as they are usually in horrible shape, since most were bought by companies for work (and they were worked to death). Or someone has already restored/customized one and now wants big dollars for a truck that I would have tear back down to get it the way I want.

So naturally one day I was checking the online classified section for trucks (which I seem to do every day, even when I am not looking at buying a truck) and found what was just about the perfect truck at an actual reasonable price. I had seen the truck for sale before in passing, but didn't think much of it as there was never a picture posted. But this time the owner actually posted a pic. The truck had been for sale for a while as he was pretty much in the middle of no where. I really liked what I saw, called him up and went to see the truck that day. The next day I went back with cash in hand and a trailer to bring her home.





1989 Chevy R3500 (1ton), dually, crew cab, long box, dual fuel tanks, with a service box on the rear, 3spd auto and a 7.4L big block V8 454 under the hood.

The truck was owned by a paving company that owned it since new. The truck was all original. Even the service box in the back had a data plate from 89.



The truck was in excellent shape as the paving company only used it during the summer and it was stored inside during the winters.

The only little problem I could see was the rockers.

Passengers side (this was later on when I removed the stupid side steps):



Drivers side:



Other than some surface rust here and there she was great.

Though like I said above, she is almost the perfect truck. The one thing I was sad that it didn't have was 4x4. This is actually the very first non-4x4 vehicle I have ever owned. Yes I mean out of all the vehicles I have ever owned, they have all been 4x4. My very first vehicle back in the day was an old 4x4 Jeep J10 and since then I have always gravitated towards the 4x4 trucks. But even then, I very rarely need 4x4 unless I am off roading. And this truck really isn't destined to be an off road rig.

The truck runs well and drives great. I have already started digging into her to fix the little boo-boo's she has here and there. Naturally I have found a few more since I bought her.

More to come...