[72Lester]

#1 - '72 C10 long fleet. Spent most of '96 & '97 looking around North Dakota for a good sound 67-72 and found nothin' but crap. Called on an ad in the paper for a '72 Chevy w/ 350, 4spd. The guy said it was all original w/ 82,000 miles and very little rust. He'd had tons of calls but nobody had actually looked at it. I asked him how much? and he simply said "five". I was expecting 5,000 because everything with that description around there ran for about 5K. I figured it wouldn't hurt to look so I asked for directions. About 39 miles of dirt roads and directions like "turn at the 13th telephone pole from the main road" and I finally found the guy's farm. Turns out nobody could find his house to look at it. His neighbor (6 miles away) had died and the family had given this farm truck to him because they sold the farm. This guy was a F@#d freak and had about a dozen 70's F@#ds on his farm and just wanted to get rid of the oddball truck - no good for parts I guess. He drove (good sign) the pickup out of the barn and my jaw dropped. A very straight and original '72 Chevy. I told him I'd take it and we wrote a check for $500 - not $5K

#2 - "67 C10 long step. Found it on a street in a trailer court with "FOR SALE" painted on the windows :p $400 later and it was mine. Almost done primering it now for a total cost of $600