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Originally Posted by special-K
That's a good one. There's one in every town like him.
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It is funny because for the longest time he was telling everyone he was going to beat me up, from like 7th grade on, I wound up joining the navy at the same time he did, he chickened out, didnt even make it to boot camp.
I saw him about a year later, he couldnt even look me in the eye at that point, it was kind of rewarding.
Oh but a great back in the day story about breaking something.
My frist truck was a 71 K20 painted 2 tone brown, it had a build 350 road ranger over drive, SM465 and a 205.
It was a cool truck painted brown and tan, with the running gear orange. I loved that truck.
Anyhow, seeing as how it was my first truck decided to go and see what it would do off road. Growing up in Montana there were no shortage of places to go and try to get it stuck, but the truck had been built with lockers front and rear with 4.10's so it was a freaking animal off road.
We kept finding things that would get my friends trucks stuck, mine would plow through (they all had open diffs)
Finally we got bored with seeing what we could mud it through and began seeing what it could climb.
Well the truck turned out to be the pickup version of a mountain goat!
That is until I tried climbing this big rock slide with it. I was doing fine about the first 300 feet up it, until I put a rock through the oil pan and blew the motor. It broke the crank shaft, it apeared the rock pushed so far into the pan that it hit the crank.
I spent the next 3 days over at my buddies house ripping the motor out of a 79 caprice I bought for 500 bucks and stuffing it in the truck so my dad wouldnt find out.
I loved that old truck, but unfortunately the cab mounts rusted out really bad, and when you would push the clutch in the cab would slide back into the bed.
I was driving it around with a 2x4 block wedged between the cab and bed. I wound up trading it to a body shop for the afformentioned 70 short bed that a customer had painted and could not pay the bill on.