72 K5 with 87-91 K5 Gas Tank Install

[K5 MAX]

Originally Posted by jjzepplin

YOU SOLD YOUR K5? WHAT THE??? Well you did a nice job with the tank install! Do you have another 67-72?

Yeah it was a sad, sad day, especially now that they are getting to unattainable prices. I bought the one in the thread for $2800 in February of 2018. Put a gas tank in it, some used tires, and a master cylinder and it was reliable enough to enjoy 10-20 miles from my house. We live near Mexico Beach FL where Hurricane Michael hit in Oct of 2018, it was a Cat 5 for those that don’t remember it. The K5 was in my enclosed shop under my house, we evacuated the day before even though it was only goin to be a Cat 2 at that time. We had a 1 yr old and didn’t want to risk staying for power outages and stuff. With it only being a Cat 2 storm surge shouldn’t have affected us. We’ll it jumped from a Cat 2 to a Cat 5 over night the night before it hit. I was 4 hours away so there was nothing I could do but hope our house didn’t get surge. We’ll it did, 3-4’ of salt water where the K5 set. Got salt water in everything but the motor, winched it on a trailer and did every fluid twice after driving it some in between. It was running and driving but the salt surge was accelerating the rust it already had. I wasn’t able to jump on the rust repair anytime soon. Sold it to a cousin that wanted it and could jump on it. He made made major progress after he got it, then caught Covid and died. His son is working to finish it, I have first dibs when he sells it. So maybe they’ll be a good ending to this story. I’ll throw some current pics of it in my build thread at some point.