Greetings from Bushwood
 

Greetings everyone

Current owner of an 86 C10 work truck and and "brand new" (to me) 1972 C10 SB stepside. Purchased the SB a few days ago on fleabay and doing a near 500 mile road trip to pick it up on Thurs-Fri. :bann: Hopefully this will be an enjoyable adventure/road-trip.

Will update with details and pics

cheers all
JohnG

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Can't wait- love the road trip threads!

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Finished the transaction on Thurs and will be doing the 450 mile road trip on Fri. If all goes well, I'll be updating with pics Fri night.

Oh, I did a typo in my OP as the truck is actually a 71. :thud:

My "chase vehicle" has a big bag of tools which I'm hoping I won't need. :truck:

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OK, so here's some of the stuff that happened today. Left Santa Fe around 7:00am and it was just barely light out. The brakes lights didn't seem to work but the PO texted me that it was probably because I pumped the brakes. Sure enough the lights did work once on the road. I suspect there's an adjustment in order though. The little 250 six pushed the truck along pretty well. I was able to maintain a fairly consistent 65 MPH even on the moderate hills heading West. Actually crested the continental divide at 67 MPH at 7300' elevation. Not a LOT left above that but I did see 70MPH a few times.

Holy crap ~~~~~~~~~~ Ran into a MAJOR zombie apocalypse just after the continental divide. There were thousands of stranded vehicles and I just barely made it out alive. I went bushwacking with the truck and drove right through a herd of those suckers! Got body part all over the truck now! grrrrrrr :eek:

Here's a pic from just before the zombie herd showed up:
http://www.smugmug.com/photos/i-LqM3...LqM3fMn-X3.jpg

More later

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Here are some pics from before and after escaping the zombie herd:

Heading West............
http://www.smugmug.com/photos/i-GZnn...GZnncmF-XL.jpg
http://www.smugmug.com/photos/i-nFCp...nFCpFPv-XL.jpg

Fueling up........... something this truck doesn't do often
http://www.smugmug.com/photos/i-99sb...99sbKfJ-XL.jpg

On old Route 66 near Flagstaff.......
http://www.smugmug.com/photos/i-mfzz...mfzz5md-XL.jpg

Travel companions
http://www.smugmug.com/photos/i-P4dP...-P4dPsgP-M.jpg

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Welcome from Western Kentucky

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gidday mate
love your truck-very similar to mine and thanks for the roadtrip pictures.
can i be rude and ask what you paid for it?
hope you just tidy it up and leave it as it is with the l6 .
mark

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Great looking stretch of road.