Thanks for the compliments, guys!
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Originally Posted by trevor73402
Get outta town!!! That truck is sweet!!!!
So the pic of the speedo shows 30,000......so are we saying the truck looks like this because its all original or has it beed restored? The seat looks original if it only had 30,000 on it, but the rest of it looks pretty fresh. Those needles on the gauges are bright red, not common for this day and time even if it was all original with only 30K
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The truck currently has 32,800 miles on it. I bought it in 2007 with 18k on the ODO. The truck is a "preservation" vehicle and photographs better than it is. Photography is a small hobby of mine so I know what lighting to use
In direct sunlight and up close, the original paint has spiderwebs and blemishes galore. The top of the bed walls have scuffs from the original owner having a bed cap on it (I covered this with the bedlid). There is a poorly done bondo patch panel in front of the driverside tail light that is fading through over time. The passenger door has a half-*** respray on it with a human hair trapped in the paint. There are rust specs up on the cowl and above the rear window. The paint is fading below the gas cap due to some pumps overfilling the tank. The windshield trim faded from silver to yellow and the driver's door has some sag. The underside is decent but has some surface rust; a dealer undercoat helped preserve it there.
The interior is the one area that is pretty much flawless, though I swear the dashpad is a replacement one. The clock works but it loses about an hour a day, so don't rely on it! The tops of the door panels by the window have fading as if water leaked in at some point.
I've replaced the motor seals, oil pan seals, misc rubber in the doors, fixed the AC (but the compressor just died again!!!), completely flushed all the fluids a few times, pulled off the first owner's headers and put stock manifolds on, and rebuilt the carb. Up next are fresh springs, shocks, bushings and tires. After that it'll be valvetrain time. I am considering a tint because the FL sun is STRONG... or at least a seat and dash cover.
Before I deployed, it used to sit in the garage while I drove my car to work, but now I take this to work almost every day. Life's too short and it's just too much fun to let it sit, miles be damned. I'm keeping it as long as I can, and my philosophy is to keep it looking original, running, and on the road. The original plan was to chop and drop, but I've changed my mind. My other car is a 91 Camaro with 17k miles on it; you could say I'm buying "history" and using it up, but I'm grateful somebody else preserved cars from the 75-95 timeframe (my favorite era) so that I could luck into a "new" old American car and keep it on the open road.
The family, wife's ride in the middle.
