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11-10-2018, 07:41 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2016
Location: Dawson Creek, B.C.
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Re: Would you trade your glamour truck for a brand new Chevy?
Not a chance. I'm not what you would call tech friendly.
 I find all the computer this and that in modern vehicles to be a source of frustration more than anything. I got my 72 GM with the intention of using it as a daily/work truck. The body has been butchered up pretty badly so I'm not even worried about driving it in the snow.
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11-10-2018, 07:54 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2018
Location: Salt Lake City, Utah
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Re: Would you trade your glamour truck for a brand new Chevy?
I would totally do it... Then sell that new truck for $60k and then buy two decent 72's for my twins��
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11-10-2018, 10:31 PM
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Location: Mt Airy, MD
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Re: Would you trade your glamour truck for a brand new Chevy?
I don't have to drive across the country. But if I did, I'd rent a truck and rack up the miles on that. That's what I did when I went 1,100 miles for a rolling chassis. I rented a new pickup from U-Save and put the 2,500 miles in a few days on somebody else's vehicle.
I just can't imagine not having one of these 67-72s. For me it's an old truck unless I can have both. I can get by without a new truck. I can't get by without a 67-72
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"BUILDING A BETTER WAY TO SERVE THE USA"......67/72......"The New Breed" GMC '67 C1500 Wideside Super Custom SWB: 327/M22/3.42 posi.........."The '67" (project) GMC '72 K2500 Wideside Sierra Custom Camper: 350/TH350/4.10 Power-Lok..."The '72" (rolling) Tim "Don't call me a redneck. I'm a rough cut country gentleman" R.I.P. ~ East Side Low Life ~ El Jay ~ 72BLUZ ~ Fasteddie69 ~ Ron586 ~ 67ChevyRedneck ~ Grumpy Old Man ~ |
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11-10-2018, 11:56 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2016
Location: Gallatin TN
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Re: Would you trade your glamour truck for a brand new Chevy?
No, I would not trade for a new truck. Maybe a new truck and a new Camaro, even up, but not for just a truck....
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11-11-2018, 01:09 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2016
Location: Cypress, TX
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Re: Would you trade your glamour truck for a brand new Chevy?
No, I would not trade for a new truck. Maybe an older truck, if it ran as well as my 69 daily driver and was rustier. Gotta have rust. That's how I get my special type of glamour on.
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11-11-2018, 01:55 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: 3,018 feet above the SoCal/Mojave Desert region.
Posts: 381
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Re: Would you trade your glamour truck for a brand new Chevy?
Nope. My '69 has been in the family since before I was born. Each new generation of Silverados get sexier but no way would I sell or trade my '69. Now if I had the money, my dream truck is a Chevy 1 ton dually crew cab diesel lifted with mud tires with duel exhaust stacks and a big American flag and a bumper sticker that reads "EPA approved"
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11-11-2018, 02:21 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: British Columbia CANADA
Posts: 118
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Re: Would you trade your glamour truck for a brand new Chevy?
My 69 C20 is the only vehicle I currently own. My daily driver is a company car from the dealership. I am surrounded and drive new vehicles all day and they are such a huge improvement from our trucks. However, I really enjoy driving my truck when I am off work and find joy in the simplicity not to mention the big block sound! I would not use my C20 for a daily driver for several reasons but most importantly the fuel consumption is atrocious. The big joke when my daughter and I head out for a cruise is we need to stop for gas again. I have worked for Toyota and Lexus my whole life so it would probably be a Tundra if I did trade(but I won't).
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11-11-2018, 02:29 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2016
Location: Vancouver B.C.
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Re: Would you trade your glamour truck for a brand new Chevy?
Absolutely not! New vehicles with all their tech do nothing for me. I'm anti-tech. I don't even have a smart phone and don't want one. My DD is an 01, and that feels incredibly new. I only have it because the supply of cheap old vehicles has dried up.
I can't see myself ever willingly selling my 69 910. |
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11-11-2018, 09:53 AM
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Where's my beer?
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Glen Allen, VA
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Re: Would you trade your glamour truck for a brand new Chevy?
Well, hell yeah, I'd trade mine for a brand new 50-60k truck, as i'd be at least 45k ahead in value. Then i'd sell the brand new truck to buy a really nice 67-72, and pocket the rest of the money. I drove my 70 short/step to get a load of mulch last weekend, helping a landscaper do a project, and got told that it was the nicest looking mulch delivery vehicle she'd ever seen, and then another compliment when I stopped at the store just a short while later. I doubt I'd have even gotten a second look in a new truck.
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11-11-2018, 03:40 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: Pottsgrove PA
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Re: Would you trade your glamour truck for a brand new Chevy?
my 72 has no sentimental value. I love the truck, but I would prefer an ochre 71. So, yes I would trade mine. And then I would sell the new one, and buy a nice 4wd driver like Special-K has, and a nice 2wd for cruising. My 2001 Silverado has nearly 200K on it, and it suits me fine. I don't need a new one.
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11-11-2018, 05:02 PM
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Join Date: May 2003
Location: Jefferson State
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Re: Would you trade your glamour truck for a brand new Chevy?
I should add something to my previous responses.
If you had caught me one of the times everything went totally dead with smoke pouring from the wiring, I would have made that trade on the spot, no question about it. Luckily we're past that now (fingers crossed). 
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11-11-2018, 07:51 PM
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Location: Ozark, MO
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Re: Would you trade your glamour truck for a brand new Chevy?
No way I'd trade, no matter how nice. It's not about the money, my '71 can't even be bought. We've been together too long (25 years). I do like my '18 z71 though. Maybe I'll feel the same about it in 25 years?
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11-11-2018, 09:10 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: ottawa kansas
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Re: Would you trade your glamour truck for a brand new Chevy?
Some days I would trade my 72 for something I could drive year around but not necessarily for a new truck. I’ve been watching for a 88-06 4x4. I can’t see getting a loan for a new truck.
It ain’t a show truck but it’s as rust free as an almost 47 year old Kansas truck gets. |
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11-12-2018, 12:11 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2015
Location: Vacaville CA
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Re: Would you trade your glamour truck for a brand new Chevy?
My '72 was getting some insurance work done at the paint shop recently and when I went to pick it up, the shop handed me a card from the owner of a forklift business. He saw my truck outside and stopped and asked if he could buy it. The paint shop explained it was a customers truck and was probably not for sale, he told them everything was for sale and wanted them to call me to have me name my price, he said whatever I wanted he would pay. My father in law bought the truck new and my wife remembers the day her dad drove it home and I have good memories of going fishing with him in this truck. It will never be for sale, it will stay in the family!
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11-12-2018, 06:49 AM
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Re: Would you trade your glamour truck for a brand new Chevy?
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11-12-2018, 07:15 AM
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Re: Would you trade your glamour truck for a brand new Chevy?
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I haven’t own a Ford in a while but,that is funny. |
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11-12-2018, 08:51 AM
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Re: Would you trade your glamour truck for a brand new Chevy?
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11-14-2018, 12:36 PM
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Re: Would you trade your glamour truck for a brand new Chevy?
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I often tell my Ford driving friends (because I dont have a driveway) to park out in the street. "Norma Jean" my fully restored 1952 Ford 8N is the only Ford allowed on the property! And I work her like a rented mule! lol
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11-14-2018, 01:05 PM
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11-14-2018, 02:49 PM
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Re: Would you trade your glamour truck for a brand new Chevy?
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11-12-2018, 10:49 AM
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Re: Would you trade your glamour truck for a brand new Chevy?
One big additional reason to drive my C10 for me is that yes - the new technology is amazing in what the new one's can do but there is far too much more that can break. I read that Chevy is going to be putting turbo 4 bangers in all their trucks soon. I don't know if that's true but I drove one and it had extreme torque. It impressed me but back to cost - somewhere in the 2000's car prices jumped and they jumped faster than the normal cost of inflation we see. I remember in the 90's thinking super hard on a $15,000 new truck. Back then 4 or 5 year loans were the max as well. Now, you can finance for 7 years! And you need to because prices have climbed into the small house range. It's crazy. Any used 90's Chevy would be a good back up for me. Something to use when I want more stability, etc..But prices have gone nuts. That is why I have my 97 Nissan Hardbody, say what you will but it has 200K, doesn't leak a drop of anything and climbs like a billy goat =) Good back country rig.
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11-12-2018, 12:28 PM
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Re: Would you trade your glamour truck for a brand new Chevy?
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11-15-2018, 01:01 AM
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Re: Would you trade your glamour truck for a brand new Chevy?
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EDIT: Oops! Sorry Jesse, I see you already posted a pic of one. Yes, agree completely. Saw a bunch of them at my old hometown dealer in Indiana when I was up there this fall when the 19's first rolled out. I almost walked over to the Ford lot. JUST kidding, I was there to look at the 2500s anyway - at least they will keep the old body style for a year or two. Whew... |
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11-15-2018, 07:15 AM
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11-15-2018, 11:03 AM
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Re: Would you trade your glamour truck for a brand new Chevy?
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At least the GMC is tolerable. If something happened to my 2015 today, I would get enough insurance $ (paid the truck off a couple years ago) I'd probably look at a brand new GMC over a 2014/15 someone else probably beat the snot out of. The Sierra is MUCH better looking, and I actually kinda like it. Why they failed so hard on the Silverado... I have YET to see one driving around and they've been out for a couple months now. 
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