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09-18-2012, 05:01 PM | #1 |
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Re: How I found My Truck...What's your story...?
Cool Thread!
I bought mine off a used lot in '92. It already had a 350/350 in it. Worked on it a bit, got it running and drove it though high school. Threw a rod in 95 and got it towed to my dad's house. He wanted to bring it back to its old glory, so I gave it to him and went off to the army. 'round the beginning of 2011 he hadn't done much to the old truck. It was still in his backyard, now with a 305v8 just so it could be moved if it needed to be moved. Dad asked me to help sell it for him, and when I saw it sitting there, I knew I couldn't let it go so I packed it up and brought her home. Been at my house for over a year getting some slow but much needed TLC. Still has tags from '95. So I guess in a way, I've owned this truck twice now over at 20 years. |
09-18-2012, 09:32 PM | #2 |
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09-18-2012, 10:44 PM | #3 |
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Re: How I found My Truck...What's your story...?
Well I can't be the only one but remember the truck trader? I was more hooked on them 25 years ago than I am on Craig's now . And that's bad. I picked it up from a young guys who grandfather had built him a motor for it. Then passed away before it was installed. Had been sitting for several years with the motor laying in the engine compartment. I wenches it on a trailer with a handyman jack and hauled it home. Put the motor in the next day drained 8 quarts of water out of the crank case and fired it up and drove it for a few years. Got tired of pouring oil in it and pulled the motor . Cylinders 1,3,5,7 were rusted from laying on its side full of water for years. I had bought a k5 out of a guys back yard he said it ran a few years prior. Fired it up and drove almost home when one of the rear wheels past me. ( check those lug nuts fellas). Chased the wheel down and put it back on. Pulled all the good stuff off the blazer and sold it for what I paid and have ran that free motor for 5 years primary transportation.
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09-19-2012, 12:05 AM | #4 |
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My story is a bit odd also. Originally bought my 66 from a close friend who has a collection of old chevy and GMC trucks. He had got it from the original owner, green with a white roof, custon cab. It was love at first sight. Minor rust, did a complete resto, won a first at the World of Wheels in 83. Took our honeymoon in it, and lots of memories. We called it "Old Billy", after the name of the original owner. I really enjoyed driving it for a while with the original six, and 3 on the tree. I think we should all experience what they are like to drive original, before all the modifications we do. Sold it in 86 to spend the money on another project. Fast forward 13 years, I meet the guy that bought it from me. He had been out of province for 12 years, and had moved back recently. I nagged him for it and after a couple weeks, he called and said I could buy it back. Sold a nicely restored 75 Silverado that ran good, to buy a tired 66 back that didn't run. Makes no sense right? It gets worse, my old truck was complete as it was when I sold it, but completely party'd out and rusted out. He had put over 100,000 miles on it, kept it outside all the time, and drove it every day, winter and summer. Her said it was the best vehicle he ever had, only a starter and waterpump over the 13 years. Now I am restoring it for the second time. This time the floors, all the cab mounts, inner and outer rockers, cab corners, parts of the firewall, inner and outer fenders, header panel, and rad support all rusted out. Spent a whole winter just taking the cab apart and welding in new panels. Getting somewhere now, and I am getting a rare chance in life to fix a mistake I once made long ago, by selling it. It will be better than ever this time, same colors, same wheels, 283 and a powerglide. It don't get more reliable than that combination, Chevy tough.
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09-19-2012, 12:36 PM | #5 |
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My truck was owned by a drug dealer. He had the motor built and used it to run drugs. He got busted and truck was sold at a Sheriff's auction. My friend's cousin bought it and drove it for a while. He died and my friend bought the truck from his uncle. He drove it for a while and it developed some carb problems so he parked it at his moms house. I would talk to him from time to time about it and asked him if he wanted to sell. That is how i got it.
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09-19-2012, 01:37 PM | #6 |
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Re: How I found My Truck...What's your story...?
I printed up some "WANTED" posters describing what I wanted, and put them up at some of the "mom & pop" back road stores and waited two weeks later I had not one but TWO 66 LWB trucks one for parts and one for my build....
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05-02-2019, 01:34 PM | #7 |
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I needed a truck ready to use so I couldn't buy a $300 project then spend years fixing it. I found this one on ebay in San Diego. The owner's father bought it new in Arkansas and used to haul cows in it. They did an amateur restoration and it looked great except the ugly aqua seat cover. When I picked it up the seller showed me how to fiddle with the 3-on-the-tree linkage and I had to drive back to LA in 3rd gear. Soon after I changed to a T5 5 speed which is 1000 times better. I ended up rebuilding the motor and practically everything else and now it is reliable. Some rust is starting to peek through the cheap paint job, but I want a truck to used, not a trailer queen.
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10-28-2013, 12:18 AM | #8 |
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Re: How I found My Truck...What's your story...?
Very Cool Thread!!!
I'll take the long route to get there, so here goes… A fellow Tattoo Artist has a 60 short fleet at his place that caught my eye… almost bought it, then decided to look around since the required bodywork to repair the driver's side was a bit beyond my limited skills.:wash: door and bedside caved in... Next stop, local garage that had some projects lying around… Asked the owner if he knew of any 64-66 trucks for sale, he led me out into the shop to show me a 65 stepper that had been redone 5 or so years back, the PO fried the motor and traded it in on a 55 Chevy truck… He wanted more money than my budget could handle so I thanked him for his time and kept hunting… A few weeks later, garage owner calls me up and has run into some financial difficulties and makes me an offer I couldn't refuse… I bought the 65 sans motor and it was delivered in the following Saturday… Here's a pic taken upon delivery… Initial plans were to install an engine and redo interior then drive… Finding this site encouraged me to re-think my plans… By mid-afternoon that Monday this is where I found myself and my 65… The truck still had the original Protecto Plate which showed it was originally purchased by the local school system… I've traced it to the two owners following the school, and am trying to find the subsequent owner(s)... Now to talk my bud outta the 60...
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10-28-2013, 12:19 AM | #9 |
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Tried to resize last pic… twice.
Sorry for the huge pic...
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10-28-2013, 03:50 PM | #10 |
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Re: How I found My Truck...What's your story...?
Cool story behind the truck ta2don!!
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01-22-2014, 05:48 PM | #11 |
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Hey, this is a great thread, good stories.
Here's mine, sorry it's a bit long! Almost 10 years ago now, the sons of my neighbour across the road from me bought a '62 Chevy truck with plans to turn it into a pro street truck with a blown 454 etc. Truck sat in their front yard against a tree (later found out why, no brakes) for two years without being touched. During that time I got the itch to get another old GMC truck, this time from my birth era ('60-'66) my very first older truck was a '72 GMC I had sold years before. So I started searching Ebay & auto trader etc. while on Ebay I actually found a '60-'66 GMC grille in excellent condition for $50, could not pass that up so I bought it! My wife stated thinking I was going to pull a Johnny Cash and buy the truck "one piece at a time" One morning I head outside and notice a big "For Sale" sign on the '62 across the road! By this time, after seeing the truck parked against the tree for 2 years my wife was referring to it as "that eyesore across the road" So the day I saw that for sale sign on it I thought, what better way to please my wife then to get rid of that "eyesore" across the road! So I struck a deal with the brothers who helped push the truck across the road from their driveway into mine! When my wife came home that afternoon and saw that the "eyesore" was now parked on the side of our garage all she could do is laugh & say "Well, at least I no longer have to see it every time I look out front" She has always been very supportive of my need to "fix up" an old truck. So then began a 7yr labour of love to restore, & convert my '62 Chevy into a GMC. Remember that GMC grille I bought on Ebay years before, well that was a perfect bolt on fit using the original Chevy grille holes! By the way, I have nothing against Chevy trucks, I just happen to prefer the look of the GMC grille, badging & tailgate logo. I do love the having the original Chevy 283 engine (US BB V6 was never available in the Canadian built trucks) I also love the double hump Chevy dash, which I find flows really well into the '60-'61 GMC hood I ended up using on the truck. Oh, and my wife no longer calls it the "eyesore" anymore, we call it "Old Murph" But that's another story. She is now proud to cruse around in it! I have included a couple of before & after photos of my trucks transformation. Thanks for letting share my story. Last edited by murphy98; 01-22-2014 at 06:09 PM. |
01-23-2014, 02:35 AM | #12 |
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Well my great grand father bought my 1965 GMC 1/2 ton short stepside new in '65 had a friend fly him about 140 miles in a crop duster to the dealership to pick it up and drove it back. It was a farm truck he used it working on government farms in the Mississippi delta. My dad used to drive it around when he was a kid. Granddad parked it behind his house some time in the late '70's my papaw drug it out in the early '80s and put a small block in it to get it running around 1990 and drove it everyday as a work truck doing house repairs out of it so it got beat on, abused and about 10 gallons of house paint splattered from one end to the other. Always been told that when I was 2 I told him it was mine and I wanted it. First time to drive was 5 years later when I was 7 no power steering, or power brakes and three on the tree. Papaw told me ease off the clutch and give it a little gas. We left in a cloud of smoke that would make John Force proud. When I was 12 my dad bought it from papaw and we went through it cleaning it up and put a fresh coat of paint on it and dad drove it daily for a few years until I turned 15 and got my license he handed me the keys and said congratulations. I've traded back and forth with dad a couple times over the years but it could never be avoided mom said it best when she said my truck and I were made for each other. She never did run right for dad anyways like she was mad. Man I've had a lot of memories in that old truck and can't wait to get seat belts installed so I can enjoy it with my kids. Here is the only pic I have on the computer. How she sits now.
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01-23-2014, 08:19 AM | #13 |
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There are few 60-66 C10's in the UK.
I had a very specific shopping list. Short. Fleetside. V8. Manual. Loadsa chrome. Had been looking at US trucks, Ebay, Craigslist etc for some time. Loads of help from Kieth from Tulsa who almost bought me a truck which was a decent long fleet but thankfully it sold and would have been the wrong truck for us. We were happy importing. A few weeks before I found our truck a UK guy offered me his lovely long fleet at the price in our budget. I refused and about 4 weeks later there was a PM from him titled "this is your truck, buy it now" It was on Ebay Classifieds and after an hour on the phone to the seller, I booked an appointment to view the next Saturday. Looked at the truck in the rain, went on a 3 mile test drive. Knew it was ticking all the boxes, and had relocated tank, Big Back Window etc..... Did try gentle haggling but paid his price of £8k knowing the truck needed more work to get it to my personal standard. Insured it on the phone at his house, handed over cash and drove off. Less than 10 minutes after leaving, my wife smashed into the rear with my Audi daily driver trying to keep up with me, thinking I had pulled away from an intersection..... Huge dent in Chevy rear fender and Audi only number plate cracked. Just ordered patch panels in that are getting delivered on Tuesday. Love my truck.
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04-16-2019, 10:46 PM | #14 |
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Re: How I found My Truck...What's your story...?
My Grandfather bought it in 68 from a friend. It's been in our family ever since. (I think this picture was late 1980's. 4 generations of Kauer's have been in this truck now. Makes me awfully happy.
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04-16-2019, 10:50 PM | #15 |
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^That is so cool.
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