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Originally Posted by davepl
What about FirstOwner69? I don't remember him claiming it but I got the impression he might be the original owner of his truck... or at least of some truck, maybe he doesn't still have it. But I"d start there...
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Originally Posted by Already Gone
He did buy it new Dave.
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Correct! My wife and I bought the truck new at Barton's Chevrolet in Yorba Linda, CA, as a left over '69 on Nov 21, 1969. I was 24 years old. We still have it with about 119,500 miles. It was rarely driven starting about 1980 when we bought a '79 Blazer and pretty much stored in our garage starting in 1987 when we bought a '86 dually 4x4 crew cab. I restored it with some updates from 2010-2013 and have all the paperwork since new and a record of virtually every gallon of gas consumed.
The only pictures taken soon after delivery are with the, also new, camper mounted. The first one below was taken the first week of December, 1969, at a campground near Big Bear Lake in in the mountains above San Bernardino. The second picture was taken in 2014. We still have the camper as shown on our latest truck in the third picture, but it hasn't been used since 2000.
Jim