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I would love to find a 73-89 Standard Cab Dually 4x4 or 2x4. Problem is, I wouldnt be able to afford the gas bill on one every week, plus the 1 ton parts prices if something should break. |
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Tell me about it. It costs me 5 bucks just to start the damn thing. Every time I pick something up in it, it's a 20 dollar bill. Fortunatley I don't drive it every day. I had a stepside that I bought to do work around the house. It was fine, but I wanted a bigger bed. Do I need a 1 ton dually? Absolutely not. But with 73k on the clock, I couldn't resist. But I always wanted one. :metal: |
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slap a turbo on that bad boy. i can see it helping with gas. and fun...
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Here is my 1997 dually
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This is good thread. I think it should be a sticky like the part2 thread. What yall think?
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It was a sticky. Part II is its sticky replacement.
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My bad. Just went back and reread the 1st post of part2. :lol:
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Hittin' the lake.
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Nice rig you have there ;)
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Here is my new purchase. my 1988 GMC Sierra 1500. Originally it was one of the trucks that was converted by Boyd Coddington Hot Rods as a partnership with the GMC truck center in So-cal. It was originally a charcoal gray with a light blue-ish gray interior. The first owner had purchased the truck and had installed all kinds of stereo equipment both in the cab and in the bed. He had added a tonneau cover to hide and protect his big speakers. He had brought the car to many car shows both hot rod shows and stereo system oriented shows. The truck unfortunately didn't get much looks. The owner thought that it may be because of the dark color gray that it wasn't as eye catching as some of the other colors people had been painting their cars during the late 80's. So he decided to paint the truck Mercedes Benz bright white. Then the truck got some looks. after a while I guess the first owner wanted something new to keep up with the times and took all the stereo equipment out of the cab and out of the bed and basically brought it back to stock. Stock for this truck (from Coddingtons shop) meant that it remained lowered (no air bags, no 4 link, it still has leaf springs), the roll pan stayed on the truck, the center line wheels remained on the truck, the billet grill, and all the emblems were also still not present and the 350 v8 remained untouched. He sold it to my mentor and best friend who bought it in 1990 with only 34,000 miles on it. He kept the truck in great shape and even updated it a little bit. Adding a newer stereo, later model mirrors, and later model seats. My buddy decided to sell it to get into a newer truck. So as of last week I bought it as you see it, with 142K miles, for 3k. I get looks in this truck. It is the kind of truck that doesn't look its age. What do you guys think? As for my plans, I want to update the headlights, turn signals, and tail lights, change the whole interior over to all black, and have the bright white resprayed as it is starting to show signs of age. I want to buy a nicer alarm system. Mechanically I really only want to change one thing. I want to put a posi rear end in it for better traction. Although it does catch pretty good with the one legger. Anything I do to this truck is only to update it. I do not want to take away from the originality and the overall CLEAN simple look. I cant help but smile when I see this truck in my drive way. What do you guys think of it? I will post better photos of it's stance and interior later.
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That's cool. A survivor. I say keep the original quad sealed beams and keep the originality. Everyone updates the grilles and lights, and you can't tell the newer trucks from the older ones.
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Maybe I will keep the bottom lens the stock one but change the uppers to the euro lens like this: http://www.lmctruck.com/icatalog/cd/750w/0063.jpg |
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I can see how the dark gray would more or less blend in and get lost. Bright white however is cleeannnn. I agree it needs a wheel update. Some shinded up 5 spokes will do it good. Nice history to go with it. You've got some paper and pics to go with that? It will add to the truck.
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Yeah a new wheel combo will be in the future someday.
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ok where do you find the kit to delete the step part of the bed in the rear like on the grabber blue stepper with the caddy clip? do they make it for front and rear? ive seen this before but for s10's so i figure its a kit.
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East coast customs used to make the step shaver kit, but they are not around anymore. From what I hear, guys have been able to find someone seliing a knockoff of them on Ebay.
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Attachment 733547 Well this isn't the truck i was thinking of, but this one looks close. |
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Changed wheels/tires last month. An older picture had a suggestion that I get rid of the tailpipe that ran behind the right rear tire. I had that done a couple years ago. Here's two pics...one as it was when I got it from my youngest son and put the wheels he had bought in '01 on it, and the second is how it looked on Thursday. I'm still adjusting to the look of the new wheels, but I am overwhelmed by the numbers of positive comments I have gotten for such a simple change.
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Never seen one, but me likes!
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I can see the logic in what you're suggesting. It does make sense and in a lot of ways would probably be easier than shaving all 4 steps, but there are 2 issues that I can see with it.
One is that you wouldn't have the fenders flowing into the bedsides as smoothly as with the normal sportside bedsides. You could mold them in, but then you're asking for cracking. The big issue is that you're going to have to either shave and relocate the fuel filler or modify the dually fenders for it to work, unless you find some rare dually fenders from a CCSB dually. This is a shortbed dually that was a work in progress. If you look, you can see that the dually fender just about half covers the fuel door. |
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I agree with what your saying. Any way its done, it will need alot of bodywork.:D |
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That it will. The rear steps are bad enough when you have some pre-fabbed pieces to graft on.
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well i am a bodyman and custom work is what i normally dig gettin into. this shouldnt be that big of a deal for me. i stretch and mold dually fenders pretty often. theres some black stuff called panel bond, look into it for molding on fender flares, hood scoops, dually fenders,body kits, etc....
i do see what you mean about something being missing when you shave both front and rear, but it think if i do it like the 95-up s10 stepper and swoop a lill piece right behind the cab to blend in, it wont be that bad looking, maybe even all the way up. i dig the look tho |
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The dually fenders have a more abrupt curve on the front side to allow for the fuel filler door. |
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Drooooolll!!
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